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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
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
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
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...researchers in MFL teaching and learning, including David Little (1995) and Hazel Crichton (2009). Crichton suggests that high-level target language interaction is a way of ensuring that the students have to function at a certain basic level. She also suggests that this supports their acquisition of the language and allows them to communicate sometimes also using...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...research has been done on speed resistance training. For example, in a review of the literature Alcaraz et al. (2018) concluded that resisted sled training is an effective method of improving sprint performance. However, there is limited research evidence to support the use of speed assistance and it can lead to negative effects such as an increase in braking forces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...Research, 2021) and that 68% of those surveyed were already working from both home and the office. What is not surprising is the amount of people who said that they would actually leave an organisation if there was no option for hybrid working. That being said, the report did identify that people are concerned with digital tooling and teaming, that the need to be able to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...research. However, the war was not only experienced on the battlefield. You’ll explore the many and varied ways in which the war impacted on civilians, including the way combatant casualties affected the lives of loved ones who were left behind. Finally, you will look at how the trauma of the war has been depicted in art and literature, and see what has been learned...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs