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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...changing his course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...change was implemented; or assess the effect of a policing intervention – by testing the impact of a new initiative in a specific context or exploring the possible consequences of a change in policing. Evidence-based policing does not provide definitive answers that officers and staff should apply uncritically. Officers and staff will reflect on their practice, consider...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...change at a time and tested each new product on his father who had rheumatism, until in 1898 he arrived at a product that was as effective as salicylic acid, but lacked the severe irritation and taste problems. This new material was given the name aspirin and, after further clinical trials was manufactured and marketed by the company Bayer, as the first medicinal drug to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...change in organisations mean that the jobs for which people are recruited often change. Consequently, organisations may be interested in potential beyond the immediate job, and people have the capacity to influence the organisation's performance beyond the boundaries of their own jobs. Increasingly, it is seen as important to ensure that there is also a fit between the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...changes across time. These and alternative measures of wellbeing will be discussed further in this course. Whether you felt this was a fair representation of the UK might depend on your own experiences and those of young people you know. There are frequent media reports claiming the mental or physical health of children and young people today is getting worse and their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...changed.) Once you have compiled a list, see if you can separate your observations into positive and negative attributes. For example, if you associate law with ‘tradition’ do you see this as being a positive attribute or a negative one? Table 1 Your positive and negative observations of law POSITIVE NEGATIVE Words: 0 Discussion [Photo of two judges. They are both...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...climate shocks or displacement. Academic recovery alone is not enough. To thrive, children must also rebuild their confidence, reconnect socially, and develop the resilience and agency to keep learning in the face of adversity. This two minute video presents a summary: In general, resilience in education can be understood as students’ ability to recover from adversity,...
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Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...change them in any way or use them commercially. Name the significant locations Question 4 What is the significance of these locations for OERs? Janet Dyson Figure 4 The Open University Answer The Open University has put more than 600 free online free courses on its website. Question 5 Charlie Dave Figure 5 Cape Town Answer Cape Town is the home of the Cape Town Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs