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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...simple text file in the CSV format that you can then load into a spreadsheet or other data analysis tool. The UN Data Explorer also links to various other population related datasets: UN Population Division (UNPD) World Population Prospects UN Statistics Division (UNSD) Demographic Statistics By looking at population and demographic data from a variety of perspectives, we...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...simple one, which I found my students were quite surprised by, but very interested by, was the question of public transport, they hadn’t thought of that as a woman’s issue. But when I gave them some reading around the, you know, A) that women have less access to private transport, when they thought about their own lives, about sometimes being afraid to go out at night...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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...
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:...
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’...
Level 1: Introductory 10 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...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 12 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...