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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...type of model. Perhaps it is better to recognise it as distributed across the context (and situation) in which it takes place. Leadership can be seen as emerging through interaction with other people and the environment (Hartley, 2009). This means there is an ongoing interaction between our thinking, behaviour, and their situation. If we go back to our ideas about agency...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...types of reading might have different effects upon the reader...What happens to you when you read?: 2 The benefits of being a bookworm - Some researchers believe that reading fiction allows us to experience a ‘simulated social world’ (e.g. Mar, Oatley, Hirsh, dela Paz & Peterson, 2006). That is to say that when we are introduced to a character in a book, it is similar...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...type questions you usually only get one attempt). If you get the answer right first time you will get more marks than for a correct answer the second or third time. Therefore, please be aware that for the end-of-course quiz it is possible to get all the questions right but not score 50% and be eligible for the OpenLearn badge on that attempt. If one of your answers is...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...type of puzzle relates to a part of maths that involves studying networks. A real-life example of this type of puzzle could be: if a salesperson had to visit five towns, what order should they do it to travel the least total distance overall? It quite often happens in mathematics that what started out as very abstract topics with no practical use, later turn out to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...types of accounts you hold. You could look at opening fixed rate accounts where the interest rate offered stays the same over the life of the account. With fixed rate accounts your money is tied up for a period of time. You may be offered a better rate of interest than an instant access account but the trade-off is that you won’t have immediate access to your money if...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...phrase ‘Britain’s sons shall aye be free’ appears above the ship and ‘Free Trade to all the world’ below it. [Described image] Figure 8 Ceramic jug commemorating the Reform Act of 1832, c.1832. Stockport Museums. Photo: copyright and courtesy of Stockport Museums Activity 5 Timing: Spend no more than 30 minutes on this. In this activity you will analyse two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...phrases, and the play Ti ho sposato per allegria (1965). Ginzburg wrote about her personal experiences in a fictionalised form and many of her works are based on memories of her childhood and youth in Turin. She died on 7 October 1991. First of all, you can do some vocabulary work to prepare you for the reading activity coming up next. Attività 16 Read the following...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...Type your answer in the text box below. Discussion The powers conferred on PCSOs are quite wide ranging and certainly go beyond what many people understand them to be able to do (College of Policing, 2019). Perhaps one of the main differences in the powers of a PCSO compared to a police officer is the power to arrest. A PCSO cannot arrest anyone using the powers given to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs