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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...based on ‘the simple idea of getting the work [of an organisation] done by the best means available’ (p. 101). The extract reviewed in Activity 1 is where his thinking took him. Activity 1 Identifying development management Read the following extract from ‘What is development management?’ (Thomas, 1996, pp. 101–3). a.Does Thomas’s account leave you feeling...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...based outside of the UK and do not need to store data in line with UK laws and regulations. For the clinician, traditional instant messaging may also constitute information overload and just add another layer of complexity to the job. In this section, you have learned about how digital technology can change professional practice, but that may raise a number of issues and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...based approaches which ‘value the resources that exist in the community and build on the strengths and affordances of communities’. They further argue that ‘a strong assets-based approach that emphasises and values the experience of community members is an effective way to empower communities to make positive change’. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, community...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...based on the application of scientific enquiry to the problem of ascertaining human performance, abilities and limitations. A simple example will illustrate the principles of how ergonomics can be applied in design. Figure 10 shows two designs for pliers. [Figure 10] Figure 10 (a) Conventional pliers gripped so that the jaws point along the line of the forearm cause...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...Based in Oakland, California, USA, Julie Nicholson and her colleagues interviewed 98 school pupils (most between the ages of three and ten, but some were teenagers) about their perspectives on both children’s and adults’ play. The majority of these children were living in economically distressed urban environments. The impetus for the research arose from a wish to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...based in the UK, what was your organisation’s contribution to the 152 billion tonne-kilometre figure of road transport? Was that contribution fully justifiable? To assess that, it is not only the weight and distance of the freight that needs to be considered; the way that the freight is transported is a key factor, as Figure 4 demonstrates. [Described image] Figure 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...based on representing data as sequences of numbers. Computers use digital technologies so, in this course, the term ‘digital world’ refers to the influence of computers, in a wide variety of forms, on the world. In this course you will learn a little about the historical development of computers and their role in today’s society. You will then consider examples of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...based pedagogy, so within each week there will be activities to undertake. Many of these involve writing a blog post detailing your thoughts on a particular issue, and then Tweeting about your post to enable other learners to read different opinions. If you are not comfortable with making public your thoughts in this way, you can simply substitute the blog posts for...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs