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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
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...histories to form the basis of their work...Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 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
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...history, as there might very well be in a place that began life, in the usual English fashion, under the Britons and grew into municipal consciousness in the fostering care of the Romans and the ruder nurture of the Saxons, Danes, and Normans. Lords it had of the last, and the great line of the Earls of Shrewsbury presently rose and led Sheffield men back to battle in...
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Article 10 mins
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...family- and carer-friendly policies that allow flexible working patterns (Collins et al., 2021), and additional training, support and resources. In the UK positive discrimination and in the USA affirmative action are considered ways to promote equity. In either case, preferential treatment is given to people from an under-represented group, for example to increase their...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...family photograph albums which span many generations. What are the distinctive family features, or characters, that demonstrate the relatedness of individuals? In other words, what characters do they have in common? For example, they might have brown eyes, a white forelock in their hair, ears that are closely attached to the head, that is, without lobes. But you will also...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs