2,706 search results
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations. You will carry out simple experiments to extract the DNA from fruit or vegetables, observe osmosis in action and bake a potato to destruction! You’ll also investigate how different liquids behave when frozen and how much water an everyday food item contains. As you carry...
View course Basic science: understanding experiments
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...think about how a leader or manager in the ‘caring professions’ can be, in short, more caring. It is made up of a series of four sections. The first section focuses on understanding stress and anxiety more generally. Then the second section, pressure, stress and you, invites you to examine how stress is impacting upon you on an individual level. The third section...
View course The caring manager in health and social care
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...think about the reasons behind and critiques of the UN goal of literacy for all given in the last two paragraphs of the article? d.What views are you developing on literacy and the goal of making everyone literate? 2. Search for articles and information about global literacy and goals related to achieving literacy for all. To narrow down your search, you may want to focus...
View course Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...think is meant by the term ‘plagiarism’? Spend a few minutes jotting down your thoughts. Answer You have probably been taught about plagiarism before or have a basic understanding of what it is: namely the use of other people’s material in your work without appropriate attribution. You have probably also been told that you shouldn’t do it, and that to do so is...
View course All my own work: exploring academic integrity
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...system is. It will download it. And you can see how the colour is starting to show when the file is being downloaded. If you can see at the bottom of the screen also, you will see English, but once you click on that-- that has been installed now, so I can just close that window. And at the bottom of my screen, I have a Word document open. I see English, if I click on...
View course Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...think about death, as the focus of attention and conversations are more likely to revolve around treatment options and trying to prevent death. Talking about death may be seen as being negative, tempting fate or giving up. We often see words around ‘fighting’ and ‘battle’ for those who have lost the war against their disease as if death was something you can...
View article Valuing death
Article 5 mins
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...think can make a difference but does not randomly assign participants to groups. For example, a researcher might compare the academic performance of students in a school that implements a wellbeing program with the academic performance of students in a school that does not. Qualitative methodologies have several strategies, far too many to list them all here, they may...
View article Defining your research methodology
Article 5 mins
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...think of ethnicity in Britain as being mainly about ‘race’ and skin colour. However, there are many ethnic groups that are not distinguished primarily in terms of skin colour. These include, for example, groups defined mainly in terms of religion (i.e. Jewish people or Muslim people) or nationality (i.e. Scottish, Welsh, or Irish people). Moreover, if we look at...
View article Children and ethnicity
Article 10 mins