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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...world of work and people’s relationship with it. Our identities, both at work and home, are being further merged, which can cause confusion and frustration. One thing that is clear, is that these changes could not be foreseen and have found us needing to dig deep to develop coping strategies and find different ways of working and/or being. This change in our situations...
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Article 10 mins
DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes

...world. Extremely accessible. Burton et al., Chemical Storylines, G. Heinemann Educational Publishers Part of the Salters Advanced Chemistry course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and Gilchrist I., Starting Science (Book 1), Oxford...
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Article 15 mins
Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...world it's been attempted, and there’s a big dilemma. By the time they find out if the dry air’s worked, it’ll be too late to build a new bridge. There’s a lot at stake. KEITH PERRYMAN Given that we’re handling twenty-four million vehicles a year, it's quite impractical to consider that traffic diverting on a mile detour. So it will have a major impact if a new...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...world. [Diploma of University graduation with a red silk ribbon] Maha Bali (Open University, 2020) has discussed the challenges of achieving diversity within higher education: ‘I don’t think a lot of the time that those structures are then modified to support the inclusion…a lot of times it’s tokenistic’. She adds that ‘a lot of times you talk about inclusion...
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Article 10 mins
Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...world in which we live, we need to be able to collaborate, speak up, and act for positive change as 'sustainability citizens'. UNESCO has identified eight key sustainability competencies that allow us to engage constructively and responsibly. The sustainability competencies are interrelated and key to achieving the SDGs. These are: Systems thinking Anticipatory Normative...
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Article 5 mins
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...world is violence. The form of violence against children varies widely and is hugely disparate. In this free course, Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach, the focus is on three different environments where children experience violence...Children are subject to many forms of adversity, for example, poverty or ill health....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...world. Finally, the course concludes by exploring the impact citizen scientists are having on recording biodiversity around the globe...This free course, Citizen science and global biodiversity, deals with the importance of biodiversity and explores how anyone can contribute to and be involved in identifying and recording wildlife, as a citizen scientist. It looks at what...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.' We know depression through metaphors. Emily Dickinson was able to convey it in language. Goya, in an image. Half the purpose of art is to describe such iconic states. As for me, I had always thought myself tough. One of the people who could survive if I had been sent to a concentration camp. In 1991, I had a series of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs