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What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...economic benefits (cost versus benefit). Figure 2 provides a summary of the different ‘levels’ and ‘purpose’ of digital technology. [The figure shows a table with four distinct sections. The top section describes Evidence tier 3a which is Preventative behavioural change (Address public health issues: smoking, eating, alcohol, sexual health, sleeping and exercise)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...economics and computing, particularly in compressing images. [Figure 31] Figure 31 You can generate part of a fractal yourself, by using Pascal's triangle that you constructed earlier in the course. If you shade in (or cover) all the odd numbers in the triangle, a pattern starts to emerge as shown below. [Figure 32] Figure 32 This is part of a fractal known as...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...economic discrimination against disabled people. In reality, although we lean towards the social model more than the medical model, neither is a perfect fit for our approach to creating accessible eLearning. We should adopt the social model approach that an impairment only becomes a disability when society does not adequately cater for that impairment, and by extension,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...economic, environmental and lifestyle factors that can influence the health of a person. Individual factors are at the centre of the diagram while wider social, economic and other factors are represented on the outside. [At the top of the image is the text ‘General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions’. Underneath this are sections labelled as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...economics, and so on. The range of applications can be extended even further by including the related word ‘classic’, as in ‘classic’ literature, films, cars and so on. Indeed to describe something as ‘classic’ sometimes amounts to little more than a vague statement of approval. We shall look in more detail at the application of these terms to Latin and Greek...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Economic growth is supposed to work the same way – increased wealth this year allows us to spend and invest to produce more wealth next year, with this continuing year after year. Of course, the sound from the loudspeaker cannot get louder and louder forever, populations of organisms don’t actually go on expanding forever, and whatever economists may say, economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...economic running and swimming are difficult to combine in the same animal...Studying mammals: Return to the water: 2.4 Staying warm … - In this section, you will meet the term 'thermal conductivity' and you will be asked to accept that it is 'a measure of how readily heat flows from a particular material'. You may be uncomfortable about the lack of detailed explanation...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). (An example is the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership between Brunel University London, the Open University and the University of Oxford.) Alternatively, the funding body may be a separate organisation that supports PhD research with a specified focus. (As just one example, the Association of Commonwealth Universities...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs