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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...types of assessment can now be produced and applied. This week you will begin by examining the purpose and benefits of innovative assessment in modern education. You will review a competency-based approach to education and compare this with traditional or constructive alignment-based approaches to education. You’ll move on to investigate what skills are needed by...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...type of dialogue or prose, a particular type of conversation or a writing style that captures your personal views and relates them to evidence you have collected from elsewhere. Before considering the nature of reflection and the theoretical ideas that underpin it, it is worth considering why reflective practice is considered so important both within ITE and within career...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...type 2 diabetes, but the amputation site had stubbornly refused to heal. An infection had eaten away flesh and left tendon and bone exposed, streaks of off-white against the angry, red, weeping wound. Several of his other toes had developed gangrene, turning black and slowly dropping off. If unchecked, diabetes leads to damaged nerve endings, meaning small injuries can go...
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Article 5 mins
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...phrase ‘Homeland’ from a door mat, that when laid back on the ground collects, on the floor, the soil of the people (in this case migrants, refugees, strangers) who walk on it. To put aside the complexities of that work (which was originally related to the Palestinian plight) what this carpet aims to do is to give a platform where the strangers who come ‘home’...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...phrase that describes something that has existed for time immemorial, right? The idea of being a person existing in a world that has lots of different isms. And so, as a Black person, especially if we think about why Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase-- not that she created the framework in terms of how we understand it but coined the phrase intersectionality to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...types of musical knowledge: knowledge about music (the facts of or information about music) knowledge of how in music (the practical skills of music) knowledge of music (a relationship with particular music). The characteristics of these different kinds of knowledge are outlined in Table 1 below. Table 1 Characteristics of music knowledge KNOWLEDGE TYPE FEATURES Knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...type. … There is in Britain a worrying gap opening up between what have been termed the ‘middle mass’ and the ‘underclass’. This division is, of course, generated by factors other than the housing system, but it is coming to be most vividly expressed through housing differences and it is reproduced through tenure-based inequalities. However it is defined, the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...types of corporate wrongdoing occur. It also outlines what legal measures exist to prevent and respond to them. You’ll learn about different forms of financial and organisational crime, the warning signs to watch for, and the responsibilities companies have to prevent such behaviour...Corporate crime can cause financial losses to a business, damage its reputation, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs