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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...technology, the machinery, the size of the machinery - everything is geared to bigger production - to compete. BEN TAYLOR: What you’re seeing is a larger-scale mechanisation coming in. You’re seeing larger kit being used and farming done on a more industrial scale. It’s becoming more of a commercial activity, rather than the more pastoral practice that has been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...technology such as machine translation tools can instil, but why its potential can be of huge benefit, and why it cannot fully replace your human brain. [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: A future with machine translation. It’s easy to worry that machine translation might take away the pleasure and purpose of language learning. But to understand what machine translation means for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...educators to the table. That’s a big job. It’s changing the way medical training has been done since its inception, but I believe in them. I know they’re going to see the value of incorporating the gender lens into the current curriculum. It’s about training the future health care providers correctly. And regionally, I’m a co-creator of a division within the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...technology. In fact, the perceptions of risk are not based solely on quantitative measures but include subjective value judgements. These may be influenced by the degree to which the risk is imposed upon us rather than accepted voluntarily, our knowledge of the problem, our trust in the ‘management’ of the risk and so on, but more of that later. The net result is that...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...education and health. These services are provided through income from taxation and, in the UK, national insurance. The private sector includes organisations and individuals that provide goods and services and their primary aim is to make a profit; for example, shops, manufacturers, financial services, etc. Profits are distributed to owners and shareholders as well as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...education and training. I recall a story (told by a marketing person) about a group of professionals, each given a barometer and asked to find the height of a church tower. The physicist, who remembered that air pressure changes with height, took the barometer reading at the bottom and at the top of the tower to calculate the height. The engineer dropped the barometer and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...technology offers the potential for real improvements to our lives – products that make jobs easier, quicker or give better results. But all too often the conversion of a technology into an artefact results in products that are difficult to understand and use. Some ‘usability’ problems are very obvious and we see them before we buy. For example a mobile phone where...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation. This course was written by Bedford College Group in partnership with Middlesbrough College, West Herts College and The Open University, in collaboration with Coleg Cambria, Addysg Oedolion...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs