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Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Research in Scotland revealed that families with a disabled adult are nearly twice as likely to be in poverty as others (Kenway et al., 2015). A factor contributing to the risk of poverty that disabled people face is the extra costs they incur in most areas of their everyday life due to their additional needs. Experiences of poverty can also vary depending on a person’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...research, accident and empathy. Narrator Here, writers discuss how they develop their fictional characters using a mixture of methodical research, accident and empathy. The speakers are Tim Pears, Monique Roffey, Alex Garland and Louis de Bernie`res. Tim Pears My first book was written from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl, and I never felt when I was writing it...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...researcher's tape recorder, the monkeys scan the skies, whilst when a leopard call is played, they climb a tree (Seyfarth et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...research, development and commissioning, the world’s first commercial tidal stream business, MeyGen, started operations in 2016. See Figure 13. (Atlantis Resources, 2017) [A MayGen marine current turbine (an underwater windmill)] Figure 12 A MayGen marine current turbine (an underwater windmill) Geothermal energy Geothermal energy is heat from deep within the Earth,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...research and this course is going to ask that question, is to what extent is this delivering benefits for Africa? Video 1 [Described image] Figure 1 The Chinese economy is often depicted in comic ways as a challenge to US global hegemony The data is impressive as the graphs (Figures 2a–d) in this PDF show. The data reveals that China’s economy has been growing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...research literature also explores the many ways in which teamwork impacts positively on the working environment. For example: Performance – Laughlin et al. (2006) found that groups of ‘three, four, and five outperformed the best individuals’ when solving a letters-to-numbers coding problem, attributing this performance to ‘the ability of people to work together to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...research fields: from Solar System studies, galactic astronomy, and cosmology to general relativity. DAVID MITCHELL: 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy. Number thirteen, Taking a Galactic Census. How do you take a census in space? Keeping track of millions of stars is quite a tricky job, especially as they are constantly moving. Luckily the new Gaia spacecraft is coming to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...researchers have questioned whether improved access to care was an unalloyed good. They have argued that not everyone benefited equally from improved services. Improvements in access to care were unequally distributed. New medical services were often limited to the very poorest, or to particular groups, such as working men or women and children, and levels of provision...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs