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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...Simple is often best! To help you, use the following prompts: Write down as simply as you can what you are aiming for. This may come from your provocative proposition in Activity 3. Note down what initial step you (or each of you) are going to commit to taking. Describe what you hope or imagine your future practices will look, sound and feel like in a few words. What...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...code of practice for borehole drilling, which needs to be disseminated, so that people are aware of the standards required. [NON-ENGLISH SINGING] [END PLAYBACK] INSTRUCTOR: You might want to watch the video twice, concentrating on different aspects each time. The first time, watch it through, concentrate on following the story, and making a list of everyone mentioned with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...simple answers. It is a way of learning your way to effective action by looking at connected wholes rather than separate parts. (Praxis, dim dyddiad) Gweithgaredd 22 Beth yw ‘Meddwl systemaidd’? Timing: 15 munud Darllenwch yr erthygl OpenLearn isod, a gwrandewch ar y ffeil sain oddi mewn iddi, a myfyriwch ar sut allai meddwl systemaidd eich helpu chi i ddatblygu'ch...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...simple things that could be done to lift someone’s mood or that they would do to make themselves feel better. He also describes the moving story of Frank Rukosoff, who underwent quite a radical surgical therapy (called a ‘cingulotomy’) to remove a small portion of brain tissue from his frontal lobe, after everything else he had tried had failed. Remarkably, his...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...code Timing: Allow approximately 25 minutes This task will call for your creative and analytical abilities. Presented below are headline suggestions outlining how coaches or players can grow their commercial awareness in sports. However, specific examples will largely depend on the sport, level of involvement, and broader circumstances. Reflect on any opportunities...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...code which created the position of ‘protector of slaves’. This individual was tasked with collecting and analysing the legally mandated forms filled out by slave-owners which documented any punishments meted out on the plantations. Failure to cooperate resulted in a fine. This created a bureaucratic record of the subversive activities of enslaved people and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...simple message – coupled with the devastating imagery – warns against inaction in the face of the enemy. Uses for historians Answer The poster reflects how German propagandists sought to maintain morale during the latter stages of the war. It demonstrates how the very real threat of enemy invasion could be used to persuade the population to stand firm. Nevertheless,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...simple: Draw portraits of misers, but not as misers – as people who happen to be miserly. And if while you draw misers as people you feel that you fail to make characters but do make people, all the better. Ernest Hemingway said, ‘When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.’ So, give us people...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs