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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...data from CT scans, physical measurements and documentary sources they explored the brain development of a group of neglected children. As an example of what can happen in an extreme case of sensory deprivation, Perry and Pollard published the startling images shown below. [Figure 1] Figure 1 An example of the effect of sensory deprivation on the brain These images...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...analysis, production...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand what is meant by risk carry out a basic risk assessment understand how accidents can be caused use probability to assess risk and minimise the occurrence of undesirable outcomes...Assessing risk in engineering, work and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Analysis T. A. Brown (Blackwell Science (UK), 2001), ISBN: 063205901X The Human Cloning Debate 2nd Edition Glenn McGee (Berkeley Hills Books, 2000), ISBN: 1893163121 The Ethics of Human Cloning Leon Kass, Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson (American Enterprise Institute Press), ISBN: 0844740500 Department of Health Report on Human Cloning (1998) This report is the...
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Article 30 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...analysis of film music as written and aural texts. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions). This content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Tony and Debbie in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...analysis of the processes of construction of difference, and how those differences emerge, or you could do it through a political education that actually makes those differences explicit and then you start working with it and for example if you take the slogan that they use in Denmark about equal valuing of difference, if there is an argument that if you make the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...analysis. Historically, the term ‘geopolitics’ is often associated with the ideas of Halford Mackinder in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; in particular, his 1904 ‘heartland theory’, based on the particularities of British sea power during the age of empire and the historical dominance of land-based power evidenced by the Mongols in their conquest of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...data collection and publication often taking many years. How great is the difference between what doping researchers investigate and that of the media? Activity 3 Your overview of academic doping research Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Go to Google Scholar and search the words “Doping sport” (note that the use of double quote marks will search for ‘doping sport’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...data that has been collected alongside qualitative (background) information. To make sure that any literacy difficulties are not down to a visual issue, the person being assessed should have had a sight test in the two years before an assessment takes place. A diagnosis can be expensive. At the time of writing (in 2025), the ranging price varies from £500-600 upwards and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs