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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...simple, more ‘natural’ diets. They stopped consuming alcohol, tea, coffee and meat, and ate fruit, vegetables and cereals (the word ‘muesli’ was adopted into the English language at this time). The popularity of ‘health foods’ (such as ‘Hovis’ wholemeal bread) and vegetarianism grew from the mid-nineteenth century to become a mass movement in Germany and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...simple scheme for discriminating between the demands made on you, the learner, by different kinds of learning goals and the processes entailed in achieving those goals. Theorists of learning have different ways of categorising the diversity of both outcome and process in learning. The scheme we are going to work with here uses three distinct kinds of learning: memorising,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...simple yes/no responses. Allowing them to talk freely in their own words frequently reveals their depth of understanding without mimicking what they think they should say. This is especially true for younger or less experienced students who can feel less confident in using their own words in a subject they feel the teacher ‘owns’. Ask questions that probe without...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...simple conclusions from it. Moving around the course The easiest way to navigate around the course is through the ‘My course progress’ page. You can get back there at any time by clicking on ‘Back to course’ in the menu bar. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page (including links to the quizzes), to open it in a new window or...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...code of practice and ethics) that are laid down by them. Fitness to practise If a social worker fails to meet any of these criteria, including the standards, they can face fitness-to-practise proceedings, which could censure them – including by the ultimate sanction of removing them from the professional register and thereby removing their ability to practise as a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...simple terms, a concept is just an idea. But it’s an idea that has been defined in specific ways. When used in the social sciences, concepts like inequality and interconnection are usually carefully defined. This is because the way social scientists use them, may differ from their use in everyday language. Activity 3: What do concepts do? Timing: 15 minutes Try and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...code to enable withdrawal without personal data collection. [Graph of Undergraduates’ previous studies ] Undergraduates' previous studies [Graph of views of learning and fun] Views of learning and fun A variety of students-volunteers joined the study. As an introductory course, this included a sample of ‘novice’ undergraduates who came from secondary schools. As...
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Article 20 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...code, such as a religious one, which sets out right and wrong, why should we vote and why should everyone have a voice? Surely, we just need religious leaders to tell us what, for example, the Bible or the Koran requires of us? Expertise – modern life is complex. Should not experts, who understand complexity, make decisions for us, rather than all of us voting in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs