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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
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Education (ASE). DNA Sequences: from Gatesy, J., Hayashi, C., Cronin., M.A. and Arctander, P. (1996) Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid actiodactyls. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13, 954-963. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...educational books, children’s fiction and Sunday reading. Her commentary on them captures the appeal of these books for the child reader, and her autobiography is a good indicator of the attraction these books held for children of her class and generation. The inclusion of more than forty of her documented reading experiences in the UK RED site allows us to search them...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...education, take criminals and rehabilitate them, which was the goal – those are admirable goals, but they’re very hard goals. And it’s very hard to see, in a sort of measured period of time, how much progress you’re making. But if your goal is to build a prison, fill it with people and keep ‘em in there, that’s something government can do rather well. We’ve...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...technological advance to take all these, I don't know, I guess it must be at least a hundred mirrors here and condense them into a tiny space, where we can actually do that timing. CALUM: Yeah. I've not even counted them. But if you compare our lab to the demands of a satellite, we've got like 30 power sockets. So there's a whole bunch of instruments, concealing lots and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...educational activities, who have provided a brain to pick, an ear to listen or a push in the right direction. Did you think of them as mentors at the time? Make a note of them in the box below. b.With those people and experiences in mind, use the box to write a sentence or paragraph that describes your own definition of mentoring. Comment Mentors come in all shapes and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs