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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...simple self-care techniques, including the importance of rest, time spent with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests isolation and loneliness can affect children and that it is very important for children to discuss their feelings with an adult and seek support that bullying (including cyberbullying) has a negative and often lasting impact on mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...simple and can be used as a reply to the cost-effectiveness and humanitarian arguments. It goes as follows. In the long term, the project of restoring Notre-Dame will pay for itself. Through various economic factors, rebuilding Notre-Dame will bring in more income for France than it would cost to carry out. Therefore, it cannot fail to be a cost-effective way of spending...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...codes of the 50s, yet embracing the bewildering lack of boundaries that came with 60s hippie counterculture. Before the supposed sexual liberation of the 60s, ‘good girls’ didn’t, and ‘bad girls’ did. Joplin tested this dichotomy, not just in her sexuality, but through her music and the way she lived her life on the cusp of a regressive era and a youth...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...codes of segregation, civil rights activism had largely focused its attentions on the South, but as the 1960s progressed, it became increasingly apparent that discrimination was by no means restricted to that area. Although Black people were not subjected to formal segregation outside the South, northern cities were also beset with racial tensions. Black Americans across...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...simple rehearsal strategies like Re-reading your notes or just rewriting your notes, even though they're very commonly used strategies they tended not be very effective; because re-reading your notes or rewriting your notes doesn't necessarily help you understand the material. In order to retain information right, we have to organize it in a way that's meaningful right we...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...simple. It is the attempt to transform processes and products to improve their worth and benefit to organisational stakeholders. However, within this comparatively straightforward definition, there is much variation in practice. Concretely achieving this shared goal requires an understanding of the various parts of the organisation, as well as being open to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...simple, and mostly mimic natural processes. Not all treatment works use all the treatment stages — some plants provide only preliminary and primary treatment, and tertiary treatment is relatively rare. The processes are summarised in Figure 18 and amplified below: Preliminary treatment: This is the mechanical removal of coarse and fine solid material. The sewage passes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...simple. The variability in the characteristics listed in Table 1 coupled with the interaction of these characteristics with other disturbances as well as climate, make fire regimes one of the most complex processes governing landscape dynamics and controlling biodiversity. Although there are several characteristics that define a fire regime, they are most often described...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs