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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice...Online learning is now found in every area of education, from schools to skills training. More people than ever learn through online courses. Even where teaching is primarily...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...researchers examine crime and harm. It might be tempting to think of such ‘natural’ events as no business of criminology, for example to suggest that, although shocking and socially harmful, they are ‘unavoidable’. Zemiologists, however, may examine the context surrounding a ‘natural disaster’, the underlying reasons why harm results from such ‘natural’...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Research, 2016). Yet religion retains immense cultural influence, and the absolute numbers of religiously motivated people remain significant enough to require consideration in local and national policy decisions. A variety of religiously committed people are also regularly encountered on high streets and neighbourhoods throughout Britain. The figure below compares how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...Research Group here. My first degree was in mechanical engineering at Bristol University. I then took a masters degree, by research and study, in the physics of materials. And after that I was frustrated, I think, with academic work. I did plan a PhD at that time but instead decided to work for industry, and I joined a civil engineering company – some consultants called...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...research functions too so that we're trying to establish best practice through our own investigations and then passing that onto people through all means of communication, from written pamphlets through to social media. Years ago, our first priority was persuading government that there was a need for any legislation at all. And it wasn't until 1945 that government woke up...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...research. Children's health is not as good as it could be or as good as they deserve. They have a right to good health. And it is up to the adults in their lives to do what they can to promote good health for children. This course brings together contemporary research and current knowledge about children’s health, and it is aimed at parents, professionals and educators....
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...research, the findings of which can become enshrined in good practice guidance or legislation. It is important to recognise this when studying the law that frames social work practice. In June 2010, Professor Eileen Munro conducted an independent review of the child protection system in England. In the final report of her review, A Child Centred System (Munro, 2011), she...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...research Timing: Allow about 60 minutes Now read the following article and reconsider your reflections. Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions The next section will build on what you have learned about the individual leader and compare it to leadership as a collective process...Collective leadership: 2 Individual leadership versus collective...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs