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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...skills in data science and has thus enrolled on a number of courses offered online, including MOOCs and OERs. Each time the learner completes a course, she is awarded a Smart Badge by the educational institution that offers the course. This Smart Badge includes data about the skills that the learner has acquired upon completion of the course. Each Smart Badge the learner...
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Introducing practical healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing practical healthcare

...skills for a deeper understanding of healthcare practice...Introducing practical healthcare is an introductory course for healthcare support staff – for example healthcare assistants, porters, and the wider healthcare team – who might be looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in order to improve their career progression within the health sector. This course...
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Learn maths in Northern Ireland
Science, Maths & Technology

Learn maths in Northern Ireland

...skills and grow confidence in using maths in your everyday life...Do you want to improve your basic maths skills and feel confident in using numbers at home, work or school? From splitting a restaurant bill to understanding your payslip, we use maths skills in lots of ways every day. Our Everyday Maths Northern Ireland courses and learning materials will help you...
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The Arts Past and Present: Diva
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Diva

...skills all need to be honed. Catherine tackles the tragic aria of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and is praised by her tutors. In the audio track Elaine Moohan from the Music Department at The Open University unpicks some of the issues emerging from Catherine's story, and suggests that it's not good for one's reputation to develop a diva-like personality!...
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Business matters in voluntary organisations
Education & Development

Business matters in voluntary organisations

...study university-level modules helps YASS students to gain skills like independent learning, digital skills and time management before going into Higher Education. The incredibly flexible nature of YXM130 that you can choose what you want to make up your required study hours, is for me, my favourite aspect of this module as it gives me the ownership and choice! As I work...
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Health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Health and wellbeing

...skills for further study. If I was to study this module, I would focus on courses relevant to diet, health and physical activity, an area I am passionate about, so that I can develop greater understanding of how to live a healthy and active lifestyle. I would combine this with courses that focus on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing so that I can...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...skills. Research undertaken during 2020 showed us that over half the audience at the time was using the platform because of events relating to the pandemic – a combination of furlough, redundancy, supporting others’ education, needing to improve online teaching skills or simply having more time to learn. Importantly, across the platform, 38% of learners declared they...
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How international is management education?
Money & Business

How international is management education?

...study was on cross-cultural differences across groups of learners in the United Kingdom, in other European countries, and in Russia and studying the course in different languages. Using a mixed-method approach, the study’s results challenge the distinction between “internationalisation at home” and “internationalisation away” perspectives on curricula, due to...
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