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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Its aim was to increase understanding about formal and informal learning. The project involved in-depth interviews with 117 adults, aged between 25 and 85 years. The project took a ‘biographical’ approach by asking adults about their learning biographies and life learning ‘trajectories’ or pathways. [A typewriter with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...economic, as well as individual, productivity and success. In their research, MacLeod and Clarke (2009) set out four enablers of employee engagement: Leadership Leaders provide a strong strategic narrative which has widespread ownership and commitment from managers and employees at all levels. The narrative is a clearly expressed story about what the purpose of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...economics, politics and technology, all affect your business. So how do you stay ahead of the game? Commercial awareness. Being commercially aware means keeping up to date with what’s going on in your industry. It helps you make better decisions, generate new ideas, solve problems more effectively and be a more insightful leader. Video: MindTools Answer According to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...economically or more efficiently; or it might mean processing a signal so that it can be sampled satisfactorily in an analogue-to-digital converter. What is filtering? In the context of electronic signals, filtering means altering the signal so that some aspects of the signal are removed while other parts of the signal remain. In this section you will learn about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...economic self-elevation during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. So too is the mention made of humanists (‘men of letters’ devoted in particular to the study of ancient texts) who grieve Raphael’s death, especially given their interest in Raphael’s survey of ancient Rome. The loss of Raphael’s Rome project adds a transcendental significance to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...economic impact of a particular ICT system, we will be drawing the boundary very widely indeed but if we want to look at how some subsystem in an ICT system works, then we will be drawing the boundary very tightly around the subsystem...Introducing ICT systems: 2.3 Models of an ICT system - To help me to introduce you to important ideas about ICT systems, I'm going to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...economic running and swimming are difficult to combine in the same animal...Aquatic mammals: 2.4 Staying warm … - Water has a higher specific heat than air: that is, it takes more energy to raise the temperature of a particular volume of water than it does to raise the temperature of the same volume of air by the same amount. One consequence of this is that the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...economic upheavals saw the emergence of new democracies with written constitutions. Documents such as the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human international...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs