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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...account to a more reflective stance. She commented on what a rare opportunity it had been: I’ve really enjoyed doing it. I’ve enjoyed doing it because it’s, it’s not very often that somebody sits there and lets you tell them about what you are and what you do and how you do your [pause] how your life has been, has been really. (Interview 6, June 2007) It was...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...account the company's manufacturing capability, the relative performance of candidate materials, the behaviour of the market and many other technical and commercial factors. The design activity is triggered by an idea for a product. However, there is not usually much point making a product if you can't sell it so the idea is usually coupled with information concerning the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...account of the effects of nuclear weapons. As devastating as the destruction witnessed on 6 and 9 August was, these nuclear attacks caused many further victims over the following months and years. The levels of radiation unleashed by the bombs caused radiation sickness, cancer, leukaemia, and other fatal illnesses among survivors. Among them was Sadako Sasaki, who was...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...account, not to mention the need to manage tight budgets and varying stakeholder requirements. Joanne describes her job as trying to complete a three-dimensional jigsaw without knowing what size or shape the pieces really are or what the end result is meant to look like. In that sense, her role involves not just problem solving, but also problem finding! John is an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...account in an electronic filing system known as a database. Financial services have undergone huge changes in recent years as a result of developments in the digital technologies driving them. The examples just described show how convenient and accessible such services have become. Yet at the same time, issues of identity and security have become a concern. New ways of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...account for the ‘success’ of capitalist societies over other forms of economic and social relations (Harvey, 2010). Approaching this issue from entirely different ideological perspectives, Karl Marx in the nineteenth century and Joseph Schumpeter in the mid twentienth century both recognised technological and organisational innovation as a fundamental feature of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...accounts for 60% to 70% of economic output (Ivanova et al., 2016). Now complete Activity 1 to test your understanding of carbon footprints. Activity 1 Carbon footprints Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a.What is a carbon footprint? Answer A carbon footprint is the total annual mass of ‘carbon’ emissions which result directly or indirectly from the activities of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...account of conditions like dyslexia. The course therefore presents dyslexia as a ‘case study’ in how different perspectives might be complementary to each other. In the UK, dyslexia is relatively common, and you may know about it through friends or family, or your own personal experience. Awareness has not always been widespread, however, and in some countries, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs