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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...free online course, Working in the voluntary sector, will introduce you to some of the main activities carried out by volunteers and staff, will give you some background on how different organisations work and will provide you with knowledge and skills you can apply to your own work or volunteering, as well as to your every day life...Have you been thinking about...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...free course, Prices, location and spread, explores aspects of the question Are people getting better or worse off? It covers statistical measures characterising the location of a batch of data (the median and the mean), and looks further at weighted means and at the interquartile range as a measure of spread (variability). Boxplots and stemplots are used to picture the...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...free course will give you an understanding of the nature and importance of carbon footprints of individuals and households. It will enable you to measure your own carbon footprint and explore what you could do to reduce that footprint and so ‘tread more lightly on the Earth’...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth focuses on the problem of greenhouse gas...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...free course, Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations, considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts. The novel broadens the scope of study of a realist novel, in both literary and historical terms. The course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...free course, Partnerships and networks in work with young people, you will explore a range of meanings for the word 'partnership' and see that it is used to describe a range of practices, structures and processes. You will also look at some of the difficulties, as well as the potential benefits, that can come from working in partnership...The term 'partnership' is used to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...free course, Teachers sharing resources online, is designed to help you learn about how learning resources can be shared using online repositories, i.e. websites that allow for the uploading of electronic materials that can then be used and adapted by others. One of the leading examples of such websites is TES Connect. While the course draws its examples and activities...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context...An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...free course, The range of work with young people, identifies some features that we might use to describe the various settings where work with young people takes place. This encourages us to identify similarities and differences between settings. It then introduces some theoretical perspectives to help us review these settings and thus understand more about the experience...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs