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Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...education, healthcare, social work or youth work settings. However, you will also find it of value if you are planning to work in one of these fields, or if you simply wish to improve your understanding of services for children and young people. The course is structured around a series of activities which invite you to read an academic text, watch videos of a practice...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...Technology. Shibata categorises PARO’s benefits under three headings: psychological (it relieves depression, anxiety and loneliness), physiological (it reduces stress and helps to motivate people undergoing rehabilitation) and social. In this last category, he says, “PARO encourages communication between people, and helps them to [interact with] others” – social...
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Video 15 mins
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...education, government and science. What are the four main processes of standardisation? Make some notes about each process. Discussion You may have made fuller notes than these but the following is a selection of significant points. The four main processes of standardisation are: Selection: of an existing variety, usually that of the most powerful group in society. Key to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...technology and the arts in the Western world is that something is creative if it is novel, of high quality and appropriate to the task at hand (Kaufman and Sternberg, 2010). In linguistic terms this could be a neologism or an uncommon metaphor used successfully to communicate a complex concept or idea – such as ‘lazy creature’ to talk about a migraine in example 1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...educational institutions, book publishers and reports such as this one from the World Health Organization. On top of this, systems thinking is used in UK policy making at both local and national government, has influenced the work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the Circular Economy and is thought to be an important facet of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...educational arm of the English Football League. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football and interested in discovering more about business and management then this engaging and stimulating free course is for you. In the following video Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 Live explains a little more about the topics you’ll examine. Transcript During this...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...technology (ICT) industry consumes massive amounts of power. However, in the absence of the large smoking chimneys that traditional industries have, this fact gets easily overlooked. The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2008) predicts that ICT will be responsible for 3% of global emissions by 2020. Just keeping the data available that facilitates a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...technology could also be used for harm but was always optimistic that the benefits of universal, free access to the would far outweigh its harmful aspects; "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now...
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Article 10 mins