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Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...simple and inclusive as we accept referrals from all agencies and prioritise on the basis of need rather than source of referral; we offer families a choice of time and dates for appointments, and provide telephone reminders; for families who are likely to struggle to attend we enlist the help of other agencies to support attendance; we see children in non-health settings...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...simple to complex for example, may require different applications of technology to support both teaching and learning. I might move from a didactic style of introduction through more participative elements, and finally to a completely pupil-centred activity, where the technology progresses from substitute to redefinition depending on the mode of pedagogy. On occasions,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...simple engineering systems (such as combining forces) using vectors perform simple algebraic procedures using vectors...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Background - It is common in engineering for physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...codes that people answer. You might have a question and then six responses that you want people to fit their answer into. So this is quite different. This is much more open-ended. It’s much more a discussion and a conversation with people. So for qualitative research and for in-depth interviews in particular what we use are topic guides and topic guides or discussion...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...simple, commercial benefits, because you’re opening up new possibilities, you’re providing a kind of platform, a foundation for new forms of enterprise and development. Frankly, I think it’s up to developing countries in thinking about what their own needs are to think about what the appropriate indicators are. In a way it doesn’t surprise me at all, but it might...
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Audio 5 mins
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...simple truth is that we don’t know anything about Homer. The Iliad and Odyssey are oral poems that were composed in performance, meaning that they were crafted in the process of being sung, rather than being created in advance and recited or rehearsed as we might expect from a poetic recital. Because of this ‘composition in performance’ element, whoever the poet...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...simple definition of collaboration given by the Oxford Dictionary, however, is: ‘collaboration is the act of working together with another person or group of people to create or produce something.’ It may be logical to assume that, to some degree, everyone wants to be collaborative and be able to work with other people, but sometimes this may be difficult. This is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...simple at this stage – I've included my own example as Figure 5. [Described image] Figure 5 Example SWOT analysis Activity 8 Aim of this activity: to conduct a personal SWOT analysis. Insert a blank grid into your learning log and complete your own SWOT analysis. Once you've used your analysis to identify what is feasible, you can start to prioritise and decide what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs