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Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...everyday processes and conflict can make even the simplest task difficult to achieve. Team working has benefits, however. It provides a structure and means of bringing together people with a suitable mix of skills and knowledge. This encourages the exchange of ideas, creativity, motivation and job satisfaction and can extend individual roles and learning. In turn, this...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...everyday contexts, and we may not often notice when and for how long we are reflecting. It may seem unfamiliar, even strange, to reflect as a specific and planned activity. The reason for doing so is because a more strategic use of reflection – giving yourself time to do it regularly and building it into your study methods – enables you to monitor progress, learn from...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...Everyday units for length (such as metres) are just as inappropriate for these tiny objects as they are for defining the vast distances between stars. When measuring the scale of the Universe it's necessary to consider the smallest and largest objects and distances and how they're defined. The physical quantity of interest is length (it may be the diameter of an object or...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...everyday 1950s advertisements contribute to the construction of identities ‘fuelled’ by the consumption of ‘animal products’. The affective dimension of the AIC is crucial to its survival. The social harms outlined earlier are indeed ‘partly opaque’, in that the plight of ‘livestock’ receives scant media attention (Freeman, 2016), despite these harms being...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...everyday life. Hearing directly from people who have interacted with services can challenge assumptions and encourage students to reflect on how their actions as future social workers may affect the people they support. Activity 4 Involving people with lived experience in social work education Timing: Allow about 20 minutes People who have lived experience of social work...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...everyday conduct rather than consequences. Utilitarians believe that the consequences of one’s actions are the important thing, and that organisations should work to deliver the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. This approach can lead to a dispassionate evaluation of actions, comparing the number of people that benefit with the number of people who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...English traveller to Egypt. She wrote a lively account of her journey up the Nile in 1874 (first published in 1877). As a result of her growing interest in the place, she went on to found the Egypt Exploration Society and to fund a Chair in Egyptology at London University. Activity 2 Amelia Edwards – traveller Read the quotations below and then answer this question:...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...everyday setting and has audio clips too to talk the learner through some pictures of ‘mathematical musings’. It is clear that assumptions have been made about the intended learner. For example, Play, learning and the brain was written for a teacher or helper working in something like a nursery or similar education setting, so it has a professional focus. Maths...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs