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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...simple interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessments, becoming digitally ready, and effectively engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be an apprentice distance learner. After studying this course, you should...
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...simple top-down model of organisational change. However, when we begin to think about this in more detail, we can see that everything is far more complex. Firstly, national policy is mediated through the locality as well as through the organisation. At each stage of the process, the policy is subject to interpretation and understanding. The policy will then have planned...
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...simple tasks, jobs are increasingly focused around a strong customer service orientation, as well as ‘knowledge work’ and intellectual labour. Each of these types of work depends heavily on high levels of engagement and voluntary cooperation in work, again leading to a focus on cooperation and trust. Structural change within organisations – hierarchies within...
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...simple to disentangle. They are also highly contextualised by the society of the time ­– there are things which are viewed as unacceptable now either because of changing societal views or because, with the benefit of hindsight, we have a clearer understanding of their future impact. The key concepts and principles you have studied in this part are: how clinical trials...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...simple paper notebook, an electronic document, mind maps or any means which suits you. It is important that you add to it regularly so that all key learning points are together in one place and easily accessible for reference and revision. Many learners also find that writing notes helps them to understand grammar points and to memorise vocabulary and expressions. Adding...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe: Further reading - Green, Martin, Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980). Green, Martin, The Robinson Crusoe Story (University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University...
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...simple! How often do we hear people say ‘It would have been quicker to have done this on my own’ even when there is only one other person involved? When collaboration is across organizations, the complications are magnified. (Huxham, 1996, p. 4) It is important to be realistic about these challenges if we want to be in a position to develop practical strategies for...
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...simple summary of the published material on a topic theme. A successful literature review constructively informs the reader about what has been learned. In contrast to specific and critical reviews of individual papers, you should aim to tell the reader what patterns you are seeing in the literature. Although not focused on literature review for a SoTL inquiry, two...