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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...simple problems that have immediate applications, such as students being able to work out how many cans of fizzy drink or bars of chocolate they can buy with the cash they have. Encouraging public interest in mathematics, and ultimately to ensure its continuation by bringing up the next generation of mathematicians. Mathematics develops statistical understanding that...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...simple map of your home. [Drawing of a floorplan of a house.] 2. Now think through a typical week in your home. Pick up to three emotions represented by the emoticons below, representing laughter, happiness, indifference, sadness, upset, grumpiness/anger, and love/affection. Now draw these emoticons on your map, in the places where you remember feeling the emotions you...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...simple transformation model in Figure 1 provides a powerful tool for looking at operations in many different contexts. It helps us to analyse and design operations in many types of organisation at many levels. This model can be developed by identifying the boundaries of the operations system through which an organisation's goods or services are provided to its customers...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...simples, parfois autobiographiques, et bien souvent à l´improvisation. On filme la vie ! Le cinéma gagne en naturel et en simplicité. Table 2 Cinéma traditionnel contre Nouvelle Vague CINéMA TRADITIONNEL NOUVELLE VAGUE tournages en studio tournages en extérieur caméra de studio caméra légère et portable beaux décors décors naturels acteurs célèbres acteurs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...code that runs well; an end-user may consider it successful if it helps them do their job effectively; and so on. We will consider stakeholders and their role in determining IT success or failure later in this course. You will learn much more about the nature of success and failure in IT systems later in this course. For now, we will use the following definitions: a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...simple sequence: there is a clear correspondence between the layout of the instrument and how the notation looks. Activity 4 Timing: Allow around 60 minutes Examples 1 and 2 present basic patterns on the white keys of the keyboard. Play the notes in the bass clef with your left hand (LH) and the notes in the treble clef with your right hand (RH). Then play the exercises...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...code of their software, their patents, and their brand names. By comparison, the physical assets they hold may be relatively low in value. As Dobni (2010, p. 56) notes: This knowledge is fuelled by interaction with customers and value chain members in the competitive cluster. Second, knowledge is power, and for organizations, knowledge only becomes powerful if it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...codes’ and ‘perfection codes’ deriving both from school culture and from wider social trends (Wooten, 2008). The study is an attempt to go beyond accounts of eating disorders that see them as having a purely psychological origin. Instead, the article places the development of anorexia within the varied contexts and settings of young people's lives. The authors focus...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs