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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...resources. It is also possible to engage in these processes in informal ways, which is probably something that teachers have been doing down the ages. Watch these two videos and as you do so consider the table which lays out challenges and strategies identified in a study of teacher collaboration in joint lesson planning (Yuan & Zhang, 2016). [CHATTER] KARL WIEDEGREEN...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...human fertilisation, embryology, genetics the police and fire services xenotransplantation and vivisection the environment equal opportunities agriculture, forestry and fishing regulation of activities in outer space statistics, public registers and records The Scottish Parliament has full legislative competence (it can pass both primary and subordinate legislation) in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...human interaction, humour has been on the minds of thinkers for centuries. As Peter McGraw and Joel Warner explain in their recent book, The Humor Code: A global search for what makes things funny, “Plato and Aristotle contemplated the meaning of comedy while laying the foundations of Western philosophy… Charles Darwin looked for the seeds of laughter in the joyful...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...humans, we mean one person conveying information to another person. Figure 6 shows a basic model, or representation, of a communication system for getting a message from the sender to the recipient. The diagram shows the sender (User 1), the message, a 'means of conveying a message' and the recipient (User 2). Figure 6 is an example of a block diagram, which is another...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...humanity and to help them lead law abiding and useful lives in custody and after release. ROD MORGAN The first thing that any prison system must do and it's first legal obligation is to ensure that people who are sentenced to prison by the court stay there. No prison system is worth its salt in terms of its, its prime functions if it doesn't put security at a fairly high...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...human thought about what is needed. As I sit in my office (Figure 1), I see a telephone, a cup, a desk light, a building opposite my window, a computer in front of me, the chair I am sitting on, and the clothes I am wearing. These are the obvious objects of design. However, there are less obvious things, too: the software I'm using to write this paragraph, the circuit...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...human? Answering these questions is the domain of branding, which in addition to visual elements such as design scheme, colour palettes and fonts also, crucially, includes words. In this week, the focus is of course on these words: the role of language in branding, or verbal identity...Week 1: Exploring the language of branding: 2 Verbal identity - Verbal identity is...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...Humanities...The poetry of Sorley MacLean: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the power of MacLean's poetry in its original Gaelic give examples of how such poetry engages with historical and cultural change...The poetry of Sorley MacLean: 1.1 British poetry and language - To begin this course, look at the sheet of references...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs