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Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...research into the kind of errors which tend to be made. This has resulted in some important insights for candidates: First impressions matter and the first answers you give are critical. This is because interviewers tend to form a view about candidates within the first four minutes, and might discount any other information that counters this. Negative information about a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...research in personal resilience was focused on the ability of individuals to thrive after traumatic or adverse events such as the death of a relative or being in a life-threatening situation. More recently psychologists have expanded this to include responses to stress at work, illness and severe environmental events. [Described image] Figure 2 In their review of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...research and software design, the normal day-to-day work is carrying out projects. What then is a project? Projects vary so much that they are difficult to define concisely, but the general view is that projects are concerned with bringing about change in an organised manner. From an academic perspective, a project is: a temporary organisation to which resources are...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...researchers used a variety of methods to select the configuration of keypad numbers still used today. Activity 6 Why are keypads the way they are? Timing: 1 hour Watch ‘Phone buttons’ below and then answer the following questions: SUBJECT You know on your phone, the buttons are laid out one to three on the top. Have you ever thought about actually why they're like...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...research to find out more about authors with whom you’re unfamiliar, but don’t spend more than half an hour on this), and note where the sources corroborate or contradict each other. Discussion Let’s take each of these sources in turn and try to determine whether they tell us anything reliable about the fate of the library. The brief account in Plutarch’s Life of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...research is currently ongoing to evaluate the potential of digital technology to both reduce waiting times in accessing services and provide people experiencing mental health problems access to much-needed support. Activity 2 My 24 hour app Watch the video below, which features Sarah Cosgrove talking about her use of digital technology to help her to obtain support due to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...Research indicates that young people value accessibility and immediacy of information as well as the options to have personalised information which may be provided in digital technologies and apps (Gardner and Davis, 2014). There is a unique power and potential to how digital technology can influence or support young people assuming they have access to it and it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...research. It is important to ensure that assessment is the servant of teaching and learning and not their master. Reflection point Can summative assessment be used formatively?...Assessment in secondary geography: 2.2 An integrated approach - If assessment is to support learning, then how it is carried out is of prime importance. It is not simply what a teacher does but...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs