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Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...family, the home and the local environment are contexts where playing and learning seem to be inextricably linked...Children’s perspectives on play: 2.2 Using facts, opinions or arguments - From the two videos you watched in Activities 1 and 2, you will have formed an opinion about the children’s play and their creative experiences from that play. It is important to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...family and friends. There's a lot you can do online when it comes to taking care of your health care, too. From apps to help you boost your well-being to potentially connecting with your GP surgery, the option of booking appointments with your GP or ordering repeat prescriptions will soon be available to more people. And in the future, you'll be able to access a summary...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...history, psychology and social issues by looking at how people behave as customers, particularly what they buy and how they use what they buy. Understanding customer behaviour is essential to effective marketing. As a business philosophy, marketing puts customers at the centre of an organisation’s strategy. It sees customer satisfaction and the long-term repeat business...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...family relationships and the functioning of households promoting socially undesirable behaviours such as aggression reducing the amount of time spent on other activities such as reading or listening to the radio keeping the children inside the house (and off the streets) thus strengthening family relationships. (Strasburger, Wilson and Jordan, 2009) On the one hand,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...history, geography, culture or language. Primary education or elementary education generally refers to the first phase of formal education for children between the ages of 5 and 12, with a national policy and curriculum created specifically for this age phase. However, around the world there are older learners in primary classrooms, where young people start school late...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...history of life and the story of evolution. Rocks can provide a narrative of the Earth's history, but we need to learn how to read their tales. The aims of this section are to demonstrate how many of the features shown by rocks are inherited from the processes that formed the rock, to introduce you to the skills of sketching features seen in rock exposures, and to show...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...history. They’re probably the most widespread and enduring example of a ‘regime of identification’. The term ‘regime of identification’ refers to systematic efforts made by administrative bodies and governments to identify and register their populations. The regimes we’ll study in this section had some very different aims, but they share some common...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...history - Only a small number of the surviving Egyptian papyri are concerned with mathematical calculations – perhaps a dozen or so in all, of which the earliest dates from about 1850 BC and the most recent from AD 750. The two major ones are the Rhind Papyrus (named after the man who bought it on his holidays in Luxor in 1858), which you can see in the British Museum,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs