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Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...et al., 2013). a.Copy and paste below, three sentences or parts of sentences from the article that do seem to fit well with Laslett’s version of the Fourth Age. Comment There are several sentences you could have chosen including: ‘Most participants emphasized that they were simply living day to day, and hoping that no further deterioration in their physical or mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...institute magazines Advertise jobs specific to their profession and this can give you a good idea of specialisms within the field. Professional institute websites Explain the knowledge and skills requirements for the type of work and the training available. Organisation’s own websites Many have a ‘careers’ or ‘working with us’ section that tells you what kind of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...institutions such as companies and households, and analysing economic processes. It also seeks to show how all of these economic techniques can be used to build up a rich understanding of innovation and economic change. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and industrial change: Learning outcomes - After studying this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...Institute. And I just set myself the ambition of trying to change all of that by coming up with a healthier, more modern brand of jam. Narrator: Less than three years after he first made jam with his gran Fraser’s SuperJam hit the High Street. TV Presenter: Tonight the jammy teenager who’s landed a supermarket deal thanks to his granny’s recipe. Fraser Doherty: When...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...institutions or social structures? Is it primarily interpersonal (about interactions between individuals)? Is something racist only when individual perpetrators have racist hearts or racist beliefs? Can something be racist if it has harmful or discriminatory effects, regardless of anyone’s intentions? Why does providing an account of racism matter? One reason is that,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...Institute of Paralegals is the most diverse branch of the legal profession. Solicitors, very diverse. The bar, I think, less, and the judiciary even less. And the senior judiciary, still less again. So for example, and by Jove, don't they know it, many judges now know a trans judge, which they might not have known otherwise. So they hopefully will find it harder, and I'm...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...et al., 2004, p. 10). Assess the effectiveness of your teaching: use evidence about the effectiveness of the teaching decisions that you take (approaches, resources, tasks, activities, timings and so on) to inform modifications within lessons or sequences. Without the process of adapting teaching and learning, the assessment is not formative – it is merely frequent....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...et al. (1996) argue in favour of presenting learning strategies in a meaningful way within a communicative context for language learning. On the other hand, Dörnyei (2005, p. 174) has pointed out the advantages of explicit learning strategy instruction, as it not only raises learners’ awareness about language learning strategies, but also offers a wide menu of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs