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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...thinking that there must be more out there. Palaeontology is what really got me into natural history. When I was eight I was on a school field trip and I found an ammonite on the beach in Lyme Regis. And the ammonite has been very precious to me ever since, and that allowed me to enter natural history through a palaeontological, a geological understanding of the earth and...
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Video 30 mins
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...think about what translation is, and what skills are required to become a translator professionally. You will then start to reflect on your own skills and competencies...Translation as a career: 1.1 What is translating? - Have a look at this brief introduction to translation provided by the UK’s National Network for Translation. What is translating? The process of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...thinking and decision-making skills in a real-world context. Technical issues: simulations rely heavily on technology, which can sometimes fail or be difficult to use. Technical glitches can disrupt learning and cause frustration. High costs: developing and maintaining high-quality simulation programs can be expensive. This includes the cost of software, hardware, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...thinking about learning and development in organisations is by considering training needs in terms of the gap between the organisation’s current capabilities and the desired capabilities for the organisation to develop. Arguably, the most basic of all toolkits for human resource development (HRD) professionals is a step-by-step approach that starts with the training...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...system, with working parts. You are here and we are there and we are now here with you, is this clear? – Gawl horrop. Bawr. Abawrhannahanna! Faced with Mercurian truculence, the Earth man moves into pidgin: – I am the yuleeda. You see my hands, we carry no benner, we come in peace. The spaceways are all stretterhawn. – Glawn peacemen all horrahanna tantko! Tan come...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...thinking. Between 1985 and 1987 new publications in psychology presented arguments for the social construction of a variety of topics from ‘the emotions’ through ‘lesbianism’ to ‘the person’. For my undergraduate dissertation, supervised by Rex Stainton Rogers, I used a technique called Q methodology to study the different discursive frames that people adopt...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...think through the claims about the world that theories represent. In many traditional definitions of the research process, first you define the question. Then you define the data that would allow that question to be answered. Finally you select and carry out the technical method most suited to creating that data. However, this model of research is arguably a mirage that...
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Article 5 mins
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...systems of racial segregation and discrimination. This course discusses the key events in this campaign for social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement...In this free course, The American Civil Rights Movement, you will learn about the mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs