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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...changed in ways better suited to living and hunting in an aquatic environment. In particular, I shall explore the so-called 'diving response' (Section 3), and describe some of the problems involved in finding out how the animals behave on their dives. Finally, in Section 4, I shall look at what is now known about the evolution of the mammals that have made the most...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...changed to ensure this young person and their family cannot be identified. Case study: Lily [A picture of ‘Lily’, a teenager who, based on her facial expression, appears to be distressed.] Lily is 14 years old and lives at home with her mother and father. She is worried that her family, especially her mother (June), will die in a natural disaster, like an earthquake...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...climate justice have also been sought. * restitution The restoration of something that has been lost or stolen. Making amends for injury or loss. Making good. * Scramble for Africa A term used to describe the rapid colonisation of Africa by the major European powers, between roughly 1880 and 1914. The Berlin Conference (1884–1885), a major international meeting, was a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...changes to lower level protocols. In practice, refinements were made to the TCP congestion control, and RFC 2001 documents the refinements to the congestion control algorithms, giving details of the TCP protocol congestion control and start-up as it operated in working systems. This was converted into a standard recorded in RFC 2309 (which later gained some small...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...changes. This is a more inclusive way of thinking about mental distress, avoiding the fixed boundary between ‘them’ and ‘us’, and allowing everyone to move between points as circumstances change and episodes of distress come and go. This is not a view shared by everyone. In the article by Perkins (Reading 1) that you read in Activity 1, she argues against the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...change, working out how many packs of cakes you need for the children’s birthday party and splitting the bill in a restaurant are all examples that come to mind. [Described image] Figure 1 Fruit maths puzzle The four operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You need to understand what each operation does and when to use it and at level 2, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...changing money for a holiday, you may also need to work out how much currency you will get for the amount of pounds sterling you are changing. [Described image] Figure 7 Different currency notes Let’s look at an example. Example: Pounds and euros To convert between pounds and euros, the first thing you need to know is the exchange rate. Exchange rates change daily. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...changed considerably, particularly since the advent of the internet and it is these new interpretations that we will be looking at. They include: Open educational resources; Open licences; Open courses or MOOCs; Pedagogy for open education; Literacies and technology for openness. A word or two about studying an open course To get the most from this course we recommend you...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs