E-Portfolio Toolkit - Booklet
This E-Portfolio Toolkit is based on experience of developing the “Year Abroad E-Portfolio”, undertaken by the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University. We use an E-Portfolio to assess our students on their period abroad because we think it encourages them to fully engage with culture(s) and language of the target country and to reflect on the resulting cultural and linguistic development. As part of our project, we have also developed a set of learning activities and materials,
CVs and Letters to Employers
CV’s and Letters to Employers is one of several Futures workbooks which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio.
Faseintensiva 2015 2016
Faseintensiva 2015 2016
7.4.1 Uses of models not made explicit recognise that many scientific findings follow from the use of theoretical models in addition to consideration of empirical data; be aware that numerical values provided by scientists may be derived directly from data, or from the application of theoretical models to a data set.
Prix Charles et Monique Morazé 2015 : Enseignement supérieur, justice et société (audio) Le Prix Charles et Monique Morazé, remis par la Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme pour la troisième fois, a été créé pour distinguer des travaux portant sur deux grands thèmes : éducation et société d’une part ; sciences et société d’autre part.
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The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy
Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce) visits UCLA to give 3 seminars on the "Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy." This is the first of 3 seminars and is titled, "The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy" and was given at UCLA on May 13, 2014.
This talk will set the context by introducing three generations of the Iberian Shohams, a late 14TH-mid-15TH century Sephardic family moving from Sicily to Apulia and Calabria.
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60 remarkable years
The 60 metre tall sculpture was commissioned as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the University being awarded the Royal Charter.
This specially commissioned film traces historic milestones from the past sixty years at the University, and charts its continued
The UK's tallest free standing work of art - Aspire - has been officially unveiled at a civic ceremony at The University of Nottingham.
VU Inside: Giving surgical robots a human touch
Bioengineer Nabil Simaan is taking robotic surgical tools to the next level by making them incredibly flexible and situationally aware.
Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what is meant by a symmetry of a plane figure specify symmetries of a bounded plane figure as rotations or reflections describe some properties of the set of symmetries of a plane figure explain the difference between direct and indirect symmetries use a two-line symbol to represent a symmetry.
Photo Tourism at Google
Two years ago, researcher Steve Seitz created a new 3D computer vision group in Google's Seattle office. In this program, he discusses what the group has been up to, including Picasa face movies, MapsGL, and our newest feature called Photo Tours. Much of the work has been directly inspired by research from my students, postdocs, and collaborators at the UW CSE GRAIL lab. Similarly, many of these people have helped develop these ideas into products at Google. Along the way, Seitz shares a story o
What is Sustainable Development and How Can We Achieve It? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Jeffrey D Sachs | The world has agreed to adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide global development after 2015. Professor Jeffrey Sachs will discuss the choice of SDGs and a policy and normative framework to achieve them. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been
The Election Issues Tour: Washington, DC In a series of panels cosponsored by the Review and Guardian America, contributors and editors for both publications discuss the issues shaping the 2008 election campaigns and the challenges and opportunities that will face the new administration: Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, on October 16, 2008
Innovation in Russia: Plans and Prospects [Audio]
Speaker(s): Vladislav Surkov | Editor's note: This lecture is delivered in Russian. The challenge of diversifying Russia’s economic structure and reducing its reliance on natural resource sectors has been the policy agenda for many years. Russia aims to transition into a self-sustaining, innovation-led economic growth model. The government has focused increasingly on modernisation and, in particular, on innovation, as the key to Russia’s successful development over the longer term. As a resu
Mobiliteit Een interactieve les over het openbaar vervoer, en vervoer algemeen. Er zitten veel oefeningen in verwerkt die de cursist aanmoedigen om de stap te zetten zelf inlichtingen te vragen aan de lijn of de Nmbs.
3.8 Summary of Part B In Part B you learned more about the ECHR and the procedures of the ECtHR and how protocols have been used to ensure that the ECHR remains a living instrument. Part B also explored the new challenges created by the rapid expansion of HCPs at the end of the last century and the proposals for reform of the ECtHR.
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Virtual Maths Data Handling - Light Meter tool
Light Meter simulation tool
Government Debt, Susan Jacoby and Photographer lori Grinker
Does America's $9 trillion federal debt mean we are mortgaging our future and jeopardizing individual savings, healthcare, and retirement for generations to come? Bill Moyers gets a reality check from Public Agenda's Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, co-authors of Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis. Susan Jacoby, author of THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON, talks about the crisis of ignorance in the U.S. and how a 'flight from reason' is playing out in American poli
Capriccio Italien, Op.45 by Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien, Op.45 by Tchaikovsky was performed by the University of Richmond Symphony Orchestra, April 2014, under the direction of Alexander Kordzaia.
Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution: history versus myth [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Andrew Walder | As the Mao era, and in particular the Cultural Revolution fade in memory, its history has fallen out of focus and has been infused with myth. Drawing on his recent book, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, Andrew Walder will take up two related questions. First, what were Mao's intentions and what were the actual outcomes of his radical initiatives? Second, why did these outcomes occur? Mao emerges from the historical record as a revolutionary whose radi
