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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...changing the way in which some courses are offered, resonates with wider shifts in an open landscape surrounding teachers, trainers, students, learners and educational institutions. This openness reflects wider political changes in priorities, particularly in reforming access to research and data where there has been public funding of the underlying work...Networked...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...change to one aspect of the system can have disproportionate, far- and wide-ranging impacts on many other components. To put this in terms of your own work and commercial awareness: the value that you are able to add to a system of production or service delivery impacts on, and is impacted on by, the values added and costs incurred by others across the organisation. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...changing levels of Lake Chad in Saharan North Africa. Lake Chad disappeared completely in about 20,000 BC, during the last ice age. In about 11,000 BC, it reappeared. Today, its level is about the same as it was in AD 1000.’ Students were asked, ‘why has the author chosen to start the graph at this point?’ This was considered a rather difficult question. In fact,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...change in someone’s knowledge, understanding, skills or attitudes (and the meaning of each of those terms and the relationship between them is complex and contested), but a neutral idea of ‘change’ is not good enough. The change must be seen as valuable, as moving in a positive direction, as progress. This raises the question: who decides what is valuable? The...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...change my practice?; and retrospective framing. We explain each of these categories with examples of SoTL inquiries in STEM (Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 Taxonomy of areas of investigation in SoTL What works? If a particular teaching method or approach is effective, you may like to investigate why it is working well and whether/how the lessons or good practice...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...change our lives, and those of future generations. As citizens, we need to keep abreast of the changes in scientific knowledge so we can have a say in how it can, and should, be applied in wider society (Holliman et al., 2009). To do this, we need to develop generic skills that can be applied across the sciences. In practice, science is not just one thing. Scientific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...changed by authorised people or processes (integrity) be available to read and use whenever we want (availability). It is important to be able to distinguish between these three aspects of security. So let’s look at an example. Case study: Equifax, credit reporting company In September 2017, Equifax reported a data breach in which the records of 147 million people had...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...change in the political culture of this country both nationally and locally: for people to think of themselves as active citizens, willing, able and equipped to have an influence in public life. Crick report, 1998 In the DfES document Making Sense of Citizenship: A CPD Handbook a distinction is drawn between acts citizenship and status citizenship (Chapter 1: ‘Spelling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs