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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...interactions between schools and services on children’s behalf being reasonable, and implementation of necessary support practices to remain in education. The right column, highlighted in green, is titled “School or classroom difficulties” and includes points like sharing with teachers by children or parents, opportunities to reset tests, and schools working...
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Article 5 mins
In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?
Digital & Computing

In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

...interactive in the same way as other technologies. As failure at the wheel can have devastating consequences, it is unsurprising that the idea of technological solutions to mitigate driver error are also becoming more common. It’s likely that Beckham’s Bentley has (at the very least) ABS, parking-assist, reversing sensors and lane-keeping technology. Such technology...
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The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...interacted in the multicultural world of the Roman Empire. At the centre - the emperor - exercising his powers in Rome and across the provinces. But what about the rest of Italy? How did the emergence of Rome’s empire affect the life-style of places on the Italian peninsula? What other cultural influences impacted on their “Roman” identity? Further a field the Roman...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...social interaction, self-esteem, identity, doing good and any other reasons). Job satisfaction Lee Hodson The best thing about being a footballer is, I would say, waking up every morning, and going to a job that you love doing. As a kid, that’s all I wanted to be, and coming in every day and enjoying your job is a main thing, and playing in front of thousands of people...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...social benefit. After studying this course, you should be able to: outline various ways in which innovation can be understood and how it differs from other, related concepts such as creativity discuss key forms of innovation in policing outline key methods and frameworks for innovation discuss ways in which organisations can become more innovative outline the role of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...interactive activities...This free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues and offers tools for making sense of the complexity that results. The case of land grab illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in connections that link different places,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...interactive process between people and their social and physical environment which results in changes to people's knowledge, attitudes and practices. References Beaty, E., and Morgan, A. (1992) 'Developing Skill in Learning', Open Learning, vol. 7 no. 3. Downs, S. (1993) 'Developing learning skills in vocational learning' in Thorpe, M., Edwards, R., and Hanson, A. (eds)...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...social interaction, a very much a more dynamic interactive space compared to previous conceptions of the internet Web1, where it's more a space for putting static documents and information. Moving on to the latest set of guidelines, I want to just highlight some of the key developments and emphases in here. So if we move on to page 9, you'll find Section 3, where the IRE...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs