Presentation Skills
This OER is intended to assist with advice and guidance to students on Presentation Skills, including using posters, preparation for a presentation, how to conduct yourself during the presentation, using PowerPoint and presenting to large audiences.
Research skills
This OER is intended to assist with advice and guidance to students on Research Skills, including writing Research Proposals, conducting a literature review, research ethics and preparation for a viva.
Numeracy skills
This OER is intended to assist with advice and guidance to students on Numeracy Skills, including averages, percentages, how to present numerical data in tabular and graphical forms
Writing Skills
This OER is intended to assist with advice and guidance to students on Writing Skills, including essay planning and writing, referencing, critical writing and critical reading. The OER also covers writing for science, writing reports, planning and conducting a dissertaion research project.
4Ts Top Ten Tips to Improve Your Language Learning Skills Abroad (Mourad Diouri)
4Ts Top Ten Tips to Improve Your Language Learning Skills Abroad (Mourad Diouri)
Radiometric Dating
This set of lecture notes covers the concept of radiometric dating. Topics covered include half-life, parent, and daughter isotopes, Rb/Sr systems, and Ur/Th/Pb systems. Determination of the age of the earth and meteorites are discussed using the geochron. Other methods of dating (Sm/Nd, K/Ar, and Carbon ...
Re-searching the Potential of Cultural-Historical Psychology
From its founding as an academic discipline, psychology has been divided in its understanding of itself. The project to create a psychology that unifies experimental, 'physiological' psychology and ethnographic, cultural-historical psychology requires a reconfiguration of the disciplinary landscape of the late 19th century that, from our current perspective, appears inter-disciplinary, including, as it does, scholarship from anthropology, sociology, discourse analysis as well as the neuroscience
Skills, Rights and Resources in the East Asian Path to Development
This lecture traces evolving relationships among skills, bargaining power, and East Asian economic development. Kenneth Pomeranz is UCI Chancellor's Professor of History at the university of California-Irvine.
Obama and the Arabs: the historical context
Barack Obama came to office determined to change America's relations with the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Arab world has responded to his message of "mutual interest and mutual respect" with enthusiasm and conviction. Part of the success of Obama as a communicator lies in the sensitivity he shows to recent Arab history. This lecture will examine the Obama factor in addressing the many challenges facing US policy towards the Mid East, and Arab relations with the world's sole superpower.
Europe after the European Age: historical reflections
What forces have shaped Europe's place in the world over the past two centuries? And how do the challenges of the two 'post-European' epochs – after 1945 and 1989 – compare? Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University.
Bridging NetWare Skills to Novell Open Enterprise Server for Linux
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Radiometric Dating
This activity leads students through derivations of the equations associated with radiometric dating: the radioactive decay equation, the half-life equation and the age equation. After the equations have been derived, students are asked to apply them to geologic applications. This activity is appropriate for lower division undergraduates. Learning goals, context for use, teaching tips, materials, assessment tips and related resources are provided.
Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists search for carbonized remains of plants preserved in lava flows to find out how long it has taken rain forests on Hawaii to regenerate after a volcanic eruption.
Study Skills Items
Study Skills Items
Modern Languages: Reading Skills in Level 1 Spanish
Modern Languages: Reading Skills in Level 1 Spanish
Essay Writing Skills
Essay Writing Skills
Cholera, Canker Rash and Consumption: historical epidemiology and nosology in Massachusetts, 1850-19 "Cholera, Canker Rash and Consumption: historical epidemiology and nosology in Massachusetts, 1850-1920", A recorded Public Health Seminar - November 9, 2009. Alan C. Swedlund is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Study Skills
ukoer Course Pack
Safari - skills accessing, finding and reviewing information
We constantly need to find and use information, not only in the academic world but also in the course of our everyday lives and work. This unit will take you through the process of finding information from various sources, organising it effectively and citing it when necessary.
Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Have you ever wondered what skills are needed to get the most out of reading social science materials? This unit looks at how reading skills are developed and provides three questions that should be kept in mind when working through Social Science texts and extracts.
