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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...adult education. The definition also notes the importance of phonological short-term memory (verbal memory) and reveals a significant correlation between the speed of naming letters and digits and reading ability. Specific learning difficulty: the third sentence defines dyslexia as a specific learning difficulty, not an intellectual deficit. Traits like poor working...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...adult and child households were most likely to fall victim of burglary, as well as some form of violence’ (Social Trends, 2002, pp. 154–5). One of the most intriguing pieces of evidence, combining quantitative and qualitative evidence, comes from an earlier British Crime Survey (BCS). For the first time in 1982, the BCS asked people how at risk they felt from street...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...aware of the risk of burnout for activists find out what might be involved in self-care develop your own personal action plan for living with the climate and ecological crisis. Figure 1 is a simplified model suggesting that in order to live with the reality of the climate crisis, three broad elements need to be present and in balance. Too much emotional engagement can lead to overwhelming eco-distress; too much action ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...care in the monotremes are distinctly mammalian. Neither monotreme species is genuinely primitive or unsuccessful. They are specialist feeders; the platypus feeding on invertebrates (e.g. 'freshwater shrimp, an insect larva or a small mollusc' [p. 18]) living in the bottom of streams, while echidnas are terrestrial carnivores. The word 'primitive' implies a similarity...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...ADULTS, IN GREAT BRITAIN IN APRIL 2004, WHO HAD USED IT IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS PURPOSE OF ACCESS % Finding information about goods or services 78 Searching for information about travel and accommodation 68 Using email 85 Telephoning over the Internet / video conferencing 7 General browsing 65 Finding information relating to education 37 Buying or ordering tickets /...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...care not to get too absorbed in the fine details but to ensure that you take away the important overall messages. Those are, of course, listed as the learning outcomes at the beginning of the course. Look now at the first one of those and bear it in mind while you are reading Section 2. You might find it useful to highlight or to make a list of the 'common features' as...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...adults that all they have to do is repeat that which they were not able to learn.’ (Loris Malaguzzi) Despite a vast literature on the topic of creativity in educational settings, most research indicates that educational institutions rarely promote the creative process. Many schools tend to focus on enculturating students into existing school knowledge, driven by a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...care about the outcome to consumers and investors, then you will never get that profit. Because really, the value is in driving the loyalty and the repeat customers and that repeat business, which will then automatically drive profitability. So it's a real shift change in the way that, especially the financial services sector is looking at value, even if you take the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs