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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...creativity in thinking how we can find people who may need help. Anybody helping someone recover from Covid-19 in the community could pick up if there’s someone in the household in a caring role. Practical recommendations that will help ensure the effectiveness of support services. These include various forms of social and community support for carers which can be...
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Article 10 mins
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...writings of Southey and his friend Coleridge: the Aeolian wind-harp, for example, which draws its harmonies directly from Nature herself. Davy also took enthusiastically to experimenting on his own. On full moon nights in particular, he would wander down the Avon Gorge with a bulging green silk air-bag and notebook, inhaling the gas under the stars and scribbling snatches...
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Article 5 mins
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...write shopping lists and diary entries, repeat nursery rhymes by rote, solve logical or arithmetical problems, make promises, tell stories, sign our names, etc. Impressive though it is, this variety in the uses of language is a potential distraction from our main interest, which is in the use of language to represent. It will therefore help if we abstract away from this...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...write a post which explains the reasons for your findings and decisions. Discussion As previously noted, there was no obvious right answer for the factual and legal issue. The focus was more on providing reasons that explain why you decided the issues the way that you did. You may also have struggled to articulate the reasons for your decisions. This is normal,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...creatives, producers and experts across Passion Planet’s specialist output at Passion Pictures Films. These include a wide and varied range of tailored approaches, formats and genre – from authored narratives like the acclaimed My Life As A Turkey– to ambitious landmark series like Earth: A New Wild, for National Geographic and PBS. Passion Planet has already...
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Video 30 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...creativity of drawing by hand. Ann’s skills in technical drawing were therefore further enhanced, but only by dint of her own perseverance and by pushing against workplace discrimination. Ann worked for Fife Council for 28 years and retired in 2011. Her determination to succeed while challenging workplace gender roles took courage and grit and paved the way for women...
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Article 10 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Creative Cloud version 21.0.2. (B) Photographs of the CP springs and precipitates along a CP spring channel with annotated spring and channel systems. Reproduced from Macey et al., 2020 under creative commons license 4.0. And what about the other part of your work – the simulation experiments? Modelling and simulation experiments allow us to get even closer to Martian...
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Article 10 mins
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Images Course image: Vladgrin/Shutterstock.com Video TechDis Essentials video used...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs