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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography (University of Virginia Press, 2003). Donaldson, Sandra, The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 5 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). The Harold Acton...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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
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
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
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
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...code area felt by using the Personal well-being interactive maps. [Image of five young people stood in front of a brick wall with each holding up a simplified mask face in front of their own face. The faces get progressively happier from left to right. ] What kind of factors affect our mental health and wellbeing? Many different things can affect our mental health and...
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Article 10 mins
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...codes of ‘honour’ are used to justify, collude or inflict abuse by multiple perpetrators in extended BME families and communities. It is also worrying that the government is considering using the ‘restorative justice’ approach to change and penalise offending behaviour in domestic violence cases. This approach, although it does not aim to save relationships and is...
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Article 10 mins