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Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...simple interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessment, becoming digitally ready, and effective engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be a distance learner. After studying this course you should be able to:...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...simple claims, such as it was too cold in Canada for the Indians or that they were culturally unsuited to Canada, you know, these commonsensical kinds of objections and closed, of course, in this is, in fact, the best for the Indians themselves. So always looking out for our brothers and sisters across the way. But of course, this has no legal basis. You know, if people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...code to media companies who want to signal their role in television (such as 4kids.tv, hollywood.tv and bollywood.tv). The Kyoto Protocol mentioned in Readings 1A, 1C and 1D was an agreement of the majority of the world's nations to limit their carbon emissions, with the onus on the most developed or heavily industrialised economies. Though it was non-binding, the Kyoto...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...simple information displays, which let us check things such as weather forecasts and transport timetables, to interactive sites that allow us to make bookings or enquiries. In many parts of the world, medical records are increasingly moving away from paper and X-ray film towards becoming completely digital. This has several advantages, especially in allowing patients’...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...simple entertainment? The amount of digital technology available to my young son is massively different to that in my own childhood. As both a parent and a psychologist, I’ve found it difficult to make sense of media reports and research findings in this controversial area. Is technology beneficial or detrimental to child development? Does screen time lead to increased...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...simple: 3 things you want to accomplish today. 3 things you want to accomplish this week. 3 things you want to accomplish this month. 3 things you want to achieve this year. Meier also recommends some quick ways to implement the rule: Start your day with the Rule of 3 by identifying what you want to accomplish that day. Test yourself throughout the day – if you can’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...simple pair of binoculars. So as long as you know where to find the objects that you're interested in, there's always something fascinating to look at in the night sky. JO JARVIS: So let's go for it. Let's see what we can find in the night sky. During the course you will have the opportunity to use a powerful telescope located in Tenerife to take your own images of some...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...simple task, she draws on a wide range of knowledge. She knows what constitutes a healthy diet; having learned the importance of fruit and vegetables, and that eating too much fat can be bad for us. She also has learned what subject Grace dislikes at school and has wider knowledge about things like the Olympics. Angela has also developed some cooking skills, and has...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs