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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...techniques you should be able to use the many environmental TV, radio and online programmes more effectively to enhance your knowledge and understanding. A word of caution – words and images on video and TV are very engaging and may easily convince you. But they give only a version of events and, as with written materials, you should ask questions about the reasons...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...technique called the ‘strange situation’, in which young children are subjected to a series of brief separations from their parent(s) and encounters with a stranger followed by a reunion with the parent(s). This has shown that it is possible to distinguish different patterns of attachment of young children towards their parents. Howe summarises the four different...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...techniques and strategies to help the learner...Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...techniques, diagrams and models are all being used as sense-making devices. We call such sense-making devices ‘heuristics’ – a device for shaping your inquiry and learning. The easiest way to get to grips with the idea of systems as a heuristic is to use it...Environmental management and organisations: 4.2 System elements - A relatively straightforward way to apply...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...techniques of “first resort” in those common historical circumstances in which open defiance is impossible or entails mortal danger’. [Described image] Figure 3 Plate 17 in Richard Bridgens, West India Scenery...from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in ... Trinidad (London, 1836). Stocks were kept on plantations as punishment for less...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...techniques and new methods to cope with that or else they’re going to lose their sanities. So there’s a lot of components there that I think are as important as the openness aspect. Dave And we can make an equivalent argument for online for that matter because Bonnie Stewart, who has been working with both George and I on a number of things, wrote an article a couple...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...techniques to avoid problems arising from mismanagement of external boundaries. Team members need to have and use knowledge of changing situations and pressures both inside and outside the team. These may be related to social, environmental, financial or business changes that directly or indirectly affect the team's area of work. This might require the naturally curious...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...techniques, including the importance of rest, time spent with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests isolation and loneliness can affect children and that it is very important for children to discuss their feelings with an adult and seek support that bullying (including cyberbullying) has a negative and often lasting impact on mental wellbeing where...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs