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What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...learning and development. For any creativity to emerge there needs to be a nourishing and nurturing environment, promoting a culture of openness to new concepts and a tolerance for ambiguity.Creative play can also reveal interesting insights into children’s thinking and their concerns. They might express some of their anxieties through an imaginary world; for example,...
Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year

...Learn more about what this year means and how to say some traditional New Year greetings to celebrate...The current Lunar New Year, which began on the 10th February 2024, is the ‘Year of the Dragon’ (龙年 lóng nián). According to the lunar calendar, each year is associated with an animal sign. Altogether there are 12 animal signs. [The 12 chinese zodiac signs] The...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...learning, so is there a difference between digital and print personalised books? These seemingly small cosmetic changes influence how children respond to the books. Studies that compared children’s reading of personalised versus non-personalised books showed that personalisation affects how much attention children pay during the reading, how engaged they are and how...
Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...Learning outcomes After exploring the seminar material, you will be able to discuss challenges of mobilising finance for a sustainable transition. You will learn about the dangers of a vicious circle between climate vulnerabilities, cost of capital and rising fiscal vulnerabilities. Climate change, sovereign risk and the cost of capital Ulrich Volz, Professor in Economics...
What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers
Science, Maths & Technology

What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers

...learning new things along the way was one of the most amazing and rewarding parts about their career in science. Besides being able to find original data, or a new way to collect their data and the privilege of doing that, the constant development in their own understanding of science was frequently mentioned as a positive aspect of their career. A prominent idea was that...
What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?
Science, Maths & Technology

What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?

...Learning Research Group at Oxford runs the results through machine learning algorithms. These algorithms can quickly resolve inconsistent responses, bring all the data together and integrate information derived from other crowdsourced mapping sources, such as the Humanitarian Open Street Map and Tomnod. This approach increases the reliability of the information gathered...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you will be able to: describe what is meant by ‘change’ and what can be a catalyst for change explain what change management is and what processes and tools are needed to implement and sustain change identify how to lead change and the impact that change can have on people and organisations explore different frameworks...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...learning theory. It refers to the belief in how much control people think they have over our own lives. You can complete a test here to see if you have an internal or external locus of control: Am I in control? As an individual develops and gains experience, they learn to differentiate between those events that are a consequence of their own behaviour, and those events...