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Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...family. After being educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...families, there is a need to develop a bank of illustrative narratives. She will need skills associated with interviewing, helping the patients to tell their stories in a clear and coherent way. She may need to edit the audio tapes to enable the patient journey to be understood. But patients will have to develop their storytelling abilities, too. They have been used to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...family who might not know about the subject matter you are learning about because when you try and explain the subject and the content you will be naturally paraphrasing and taking mental notes. Figure 10 shows the three steps to take for better paraphrasing. [Described image] Figure 10 Paraphrasing Activity 2 Rewrite challenge Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Read...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...familial assistance to poor and vulnerable inner city children and young people. The organisation offered a mix of orthodox and unorthodox approaches to support: counselling, friendship, some (tailored) financial support and even massage therapy. The charity’s core offering was a drop-in centre model and by the time of its closure it had opened four such centres in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...family/friends require more of my time. Sometimes forget to enjoy myself. People lose concentration often when their interest in what they are studying wanes, or when they are not really clear about why they are studying something. Reading without wanting to find out is very likely to slip into a passive routine from which you learn nothing. Both concentration and...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...family home of David Hume. Hume was a pivotal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and his imminent death was widely anticipated. The crowds were anxious to know how he was facing up to his coming demise. Hume is best known today as a historian (through his History of England of 1754–62) and a philosopher. His Treatise of Human Nature is regarded by many as one of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...trees’. Systems thinking is precisely about changing the focus of attention to the wood, so that you can see the trees in their context. Understanding the woodland gives new and powerful insights about the trees. Such insights are completely inaccessible if one concentrates on the individual trees. In other words, systems thinking provides a framework for reflecting on...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...family. Delacroix’s own (artistic) glory was to come later and he is often described as part of the ‘generation of 1820’ (Spitzer, 2001, p.9). This generation, coming of age between 1814 and 1825, had witnessed the disappointed hopes of Napoleonic empire, and it has been suggested that this sense of loss helped to determine their Romantic mindset (see Brookner,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs