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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...busy with Tomos. Mali now has a very close bond with her ‘Nain’. She loves to cuddle up to Ceri for a story and will often choose to go to her when she is hurt. On a recent occasion, when she fell over playing in the garden, even though Siân was nearer to her, Mali chose to go to her grandmother for comfort rather than her mum. Siân found this small incident...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...Business School...Week 2: Looking at moons: Introduction - Like planets, moons can have an internal layered structure: a core, mantle and crust. At Jupiter and beyond, the outer part of each moon is ice that behaves like rock. How do moons get their names? Jess gives you a heads up on what to expect this week. JESSICA BARNES Hi there. Well done for getting to Week 2. Last...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...businesses. It has been made by governments looking for new ways to reshape education, learning and work. So it's very much what we've made it, and it's also responsive to the way in which we, as ordinary people, make use of the internet. Thinking about the ways in which we can design it, we can use it, there are lots of organisations out there now who are working to both...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...busy morning passed quickly. Jill gulped down a quick lunch at her desk while scanning the headlines of the newspaper that one of the inspectors had left behind. One headline declaring the arrival of the ‘Big Brother state’ turned out, rather disappointingly, to be about the possible introduction of identity cards rather than the reality TV show. Another headline,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...business using their own currency, and have their own history of independence. All this is lacking in the solution of autonomy. (De-Shalit, 1996, p. 916) The importance of ‘giving expression’ to the political aspirations of one's own nation is clearly evident in how important the ‘trappings of statehood’ are – to aspiring states and existing ones. Consider, for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...business unimpeded by rules or interventions. The minnows, who stand to be his lunch, will no doubt see the limitations of a negative theory of liberty which allowed them to be eaten on the grounds that otherwise the pike's freedom would have been seriously curtailed. However, although theories based on a concept of negative liberty can lead to unsatisfactory situations,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...business first, then a personal chat. PROFESSOR MANIK DEEPAK-GOPINATH: So what you are describing there is getting to know your team and getting to know the older people so that you form a community. This must add time to your work. Is that a problem? Joanne. JOANNE: It was in the first place I worked. When I was a cleaner, I actually got told off for talking to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs