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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
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...based on coal tar derivatives but, with the rise of the petrochemical industry based on oil and natural gas, a much wider range of basic chemical building blocks became available. Fundamental advances in the understanding of catalysis led to the discovery of many new polymers in the post-1945 period – variations on simple polymers like polyethylene as well as entirely...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...based decision making a brief review of the historical background to the emergence of risk management by organisations an introduction to common risk management standards. By the end of this session, you should be able to: explain what a risk is (and its different definitions) understand the importance of managing risk understand how risk-based decisions are part of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...based issues of public importance demonstrate a greater insight into the phrase ‘the public understanding of science’ demonstrate a raised awareness of the ways in which the public can be consulted in relation to science policy issues think of ways in which the public might in future become more engaged in decision-making about science that has social
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...based mentor. The ‘Personalistic’ and ‘Enquiry orientation’ paradigms require student teachers to develop individually and play an active part in creating new knowledge and understanding. This can be characterised generally as the differences between a transmission model of teaching (akin to a traditional lecture mode of delivery) and a student-centred model of...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...based research study’, JMIR Medical Education, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn: https://www.jmir.org/2013/2/e18/ (Cyrchwyd: 3 Mehefin 2025). Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) (2023) The ASPiH Standards – 2023: guiding simulation-based practice in health and care, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn :
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...Based on your notes from Part 1 and what you have read from Part 2, answer the three questions below: What constitutes a research question? Thinking about the problem you identified for your project, use the information in Figure 5 to outline the main pieces of information that a research question for your project needs to contain. Thinking about your chosen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The colours are based on a count of the number (not size) of fires observed within a 1,000-square-kilometer area. White pixels show the high end of the count — as many as 30 fires in a 1,000-square-kilometer area per day. Orange pixels show as many as 10...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs