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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...simple! [Described image] Figure 3 With a repayment mortgage, the capital or principal sum (the original amount of debt) is paid off in stages throughout the life of the loan. Look at the Table 1 below to see the pattern of payments on a repayment mortgage. The typical structure is a reducing balance loan with a set amount paid each month throughout the mortgage term...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...simple, for example the price can be considered to include time spent in obtaining the product. ii. Customer satisfaction – The pivotal construct in marketing is that of customer satisfaction. Commercial marketers aim to satisfy customers to a greater extent than the competition. Satisfaction is considered to lead to behaviour such as positive word of mouth, repeat...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...simple level, society can be seen to be made up of three main sectors: public, private and voluntary. While this breakdown might seem simplistic, it can help provide an initial starting point when thinking about the role that each plays. The term ‘public sector’ typically refers to organisations linked to the government and state that provide many of the core public...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...simple human gestures, such as ‘being allowed to be sad’, receiving a hug and ‘being accepted for being sad’. Taking a social model perspective, what might you want to better understand in order to improve the health and wellbeing of Yvonne and other women in a similar situation? Discussion If taking a social model perspective, you might want to understand why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...simple and present continuous tense in English in relation to another language using machine translation is a useful activity because it allows you to see how different languages express ongoing versus habitual actions. Using OMT can also help you to identify how tenses are formed and used differently across languages. Engaging with real examples deepens comprehension....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...simple model shown in Figure 1 can be used to explore some of the dimensions for critical practice. Barnett’s model of critical practice is one that has stood the test of time and learners often find this a helpful way to understand its different dimensions. The model is set out in Figure 1 and you will see that it presents critical practice as the place where critical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...simple answers and the conclusions they reach are likely to be tentative’ (Laboskey in Cartwright, 2011)...Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner: 6 Tools for reflection - In your ITE course you may be asked to demonstrate your ability to critically reflect in a number of ways. Some commonly used tools include: learning journals (via blogs or off-line...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...simple as that. We can't just give you Bill Clinton's name to advertise, on the vague hope that you'll pay us the money. We don't really know who you are. So, if you want to do it, you have to pay us 50 grand in two weeks; another 50 grand in a month; and the rest prior to the event. So, at the time, I had pretty much zero money in the bank. So, I kind of thought, oh,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs