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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...English schools have been responsible for promoting ‘community cohesion’, which should be seen as a common vision and sense of belonging; a society in which the diversity of people’s backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and valued. In other cases, try to balance issues so that students can form their own opinions. However, if discussing a subject such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...English. (NHS Digital, 2019, p. 11) To address this, NHS Digital published a guide to assist commissioning groups and NHS managers to develop initiatives to enable people who may currently be or feel excluded to become ‘digital citizens’ and to access health care. This is the focus of the next activity. Activity 1 Digital Ambassadors: creating digital citizens First,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...English is (relatively!) more understandable. I found a stone, (but) did not weigh it; (after) I subtracted one-seventh, added one-eleventh, (and) subtracted one-thir[teenth], I weighed (it): 1 ma-na. What was the origin(al weight) of the stone? [The origin(al weight)] of the stone was 1 ma-na, 9½ gin, (and) 2½ se. This tablet contained 22 such problems-and-answers,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...English there are many words that are pronounced as they are spelled Have you heard about orthographic mapping? It’s a reading strategy that links sounds (phonemes) to letters (graphemes) and their meanings, helping store words in long-term memory as sight words for instant recognition without conscious effort. Think of it like a video game: matching sounds to symbols...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...English and do some private tutoring as well. And there's talk of my teaching developing and expanding, and I'll be teaching A-level English shortly as well. The particular institution I work for uses a system of synchronous lessons. So the students log in at the same time as I do, and we have a class. We use software, which is called Electa. And within Electa, my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...English expatriates. Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...English Dictionary (2009, p. 961) defines a ‘network’ as an ‘arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.’ This might not immediately seem relevant to networks of people but actually it helps with visualising how people in a network connect up, because the dictionary goes on to suggest that a network can also be ‘a group or system of interconnected...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...English...Week 1: The value of film: 3 Thinking about the value chain - In the film industry, the term ‘value chain’ is used to describe the series of steps that run from the first creative spark that inspires the film-makers to begin the project, through to the end of the commercial life of the completed feature film. The same term is used in a slightly different way...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs