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The Arts Past and Present: Ireland
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Ireland

...House Appreciating the stately home as a monument to Irish craftsmanship and acheivement. Changing attitudes to restoration St Mary's church becomes a trendy bar: how Ireland has moved on. Unravelling the issues Anne Laurence, a History Professor at Open University, explains the significance of Ireland's built heritage to the reconstruction of its national identity....
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Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...changes that have occurred. Note that the virtual microscope tool will work in all modern browsers on desktop computers, laptops and tablet devices. However, we recommend completing the course on a desktop computer or laptop for better viewing of the sections and to enable integration of microscopy with the course text, images and video in separate windows...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...change. In Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 4, A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, Buschmann et al. (2007) cite the following quote from Booch (2007, p. 214) which emphasises that design and architecture cannot be divorced from one another: All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. Underpinned by theories of social work, social sciences, humanities and indigenous knowledge, social work engages people and structures to address life...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...changed it was the advent of democracy, where suddenly the elite had to reach out beyond their own in order to try and change people’s minds. The modern age in rhetoric really begins with an address that lasted only two minutes in 1863 at Gettysburg. Presenter Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg Address during the American Civil War in 1863. It stands out...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...changed the way we live. The internet has opened up new ways in which we can gain access to information and services. As recently as the late 1990s, certain information and services were only available during office hours. Now, we can access that same information any time, day or night, without leaving our homes. This has also changed the way we shop, pay bills, the way...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...change and influence the quality of provision in your setting. The idea of leadership as shared, dispersed or ‘distributed’ between team members, empowers leaders and other practitioners and enables an early years team to work together in a culture of learning and shared knowledge. Working in early years settings is becoming increasingly complex and the roles demand...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...changing, the way I dress, the way I feel, the way I act. I can go outside not being afraid anymore, and I don't think those bad feelings are coming back. And if it weren't for Dr. Miranda and that, I would still be at home with the covers pulled over my head, if I were still alive at all. I asked the Lord to send me an angel, and he heard my prayers.' I was really moved...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs