First year student experience
This case study reports on enhancing the first year student experience by engaging students in the practise of business through provision of a coherent and relevant set of learning activities
The Great Depression and the 1990s
This lesson asks students to research a modern government program having roots in the New Deal. Following their research, students participate in a congressional forum where they debate which programs should be continued. Recommended for grade 11, can be adapted for other grades.
Arctic Terns (Part 2)
Arctic Terns Part 2 (podcast) by Anna Shi (15:01)
Otis Alumnus Bob Glover Remembers Kiln One
Outstanding Otis Alumnus Robert Glover reminisces about Kiln Number One, no longer in service, but still on site.
Where next for ombudsmen schemes?
Recent EU legislation requires each member state to provide an ADR body for nearly every consumer sector. This workshop explored the implications through expert opinion from academic, practitioner, and policy perspectives.
Engaging students, engaging industry and engaging enterprise
This reflective case study and poster relates to a specific event staged by students and examines the phases and critical points within the whole process. It identifies some key learning outcomes for all involved
Phisick Medical Antiques
A carefully photographed collection of antique medical instruments forms the basis for this web site. The items are arranged into categories; Medicine, Surgery, Bleeding, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Apothecary, ENT, Dental, Quackery and Archive. They are mainly from the 19th Century. Notes on the use, manufacture and construction of the instruments make fascinating reading.
CCA CCR092 College Composition and Reading Lab Syllabus-Feres
CCR092 syllabus Integrates and contextualizes college level reading and writing. Students will read and understand complex materials and respond to ideas and information through writing informative and/or persuasive texts.
Bill Palmer home page
Bill Palmer is a member of the Surrey Morphology Group and is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project concerning the use of possessive morphology to index subject on verbs in languages of the Northwest Solomonic branch of Oceanic (Austronesian). His homepage contains links to published and draft papers; a bibliography with links to some dictionaries of various languages; his PhD-thesis and masters thesis; and information about his field researc
The reasons for attrition
This paper focuses on a) to reflect on an approach, decisions and subsequent knowledge with regard to non response and b) to discuss the "attrition survey", rather than discussing the actual results of an overall longitudinal study. This should be linked to the paper "student experiences of enterprise education"
Web Site Evaluation
Short video shows how to evaluate a web site for quality. It discusses all the important points for evaluating a website for crediability. (1:53)
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: volume 3
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Record Series, 6. This provides thematic accounts of roads, bridges, religious history and taxation for the barony of Kendale, plus records for individual townships supplementary to volumes 1 and 2.
WGS.301J Feminist Political Thought (MIT)
In this course we will examine the development of feminist theory over time. Some subjects we will examine in detail include suffrage and equality; radical feminism; psychoanalysis and feminism; theories of power; sexuality and gender; embodied knowledge; pornography; identities and global feminism; militarism; and the welfare state. Throughout the course we will analyze different ways of looking at power and political culture in modern societies, issues of race and class, poverty and welfare, s
4 Other influences on evolution One of the crucial conditions for natural selection to occur is that there must be variation. However, it is extremely important to appreciate that natural selection does not itself cause that variation; it simply acts on existing variation. The processes that do bring about variation are therefore major components of evolution. The most important of these processes, because it is really the ultimate source of all variation, is mutation. A mutation is an alteration in the geneti
Origami at the Museum: Folding a Whale (Remix)
It's the final week for one of New York's most beloved seasonal displays, the Origami Holiday Tree at the American Museum of Natural History.
Come visit the Origami Tree and experience an annual tradition that's been around for more than forty years. Produced in partnership with OrigamiUSA, the tree is delightfully decorated with more than 500 hand-folded paper models created by local, national, and international origami artists.
The theme of this year's tree is "Wicked, Wild, and Wonderful,
Arctic Mammal Fossils and Forests of 50 Million Years Ago
Note: French captions. The Arctic was a warm, wet, swampy, forested place 50 million years ago. Ellesmere Island is a key fossil site in Canada's High Arctic, where the remains of unique mammal species can tell us what the environment and animals of the Eocene Epoch were like. Scientists are studying these fossils to better understand our warming planet. (03:42)
Our future: understanding the big picture - James Martin
Dr James Martin, founder of the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford, explain why decision-makers need to look at the global big picture to avoid world catastrophe.
USAWC Class of 2012 Seminar 7
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Rare Books: The Constitution
This segment is part of Professor Akhil Amar's Constitutional Law class currently being offered on Coursera here: https://www.coursera.org/course/conlaw. This week, one of Professor Amar's teaching assistants, Lauren Biksacky LAW '14 and Yale Law librarian Mike Widener showcase some of the most fascinating holdings in Yale Law School's rare book collection.
Virtual Maths, Brick Density, Water Displacement method video
Video demonstrating how to measure the density of a brick using the water displacement method.
