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How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['How to learn a language' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...history and narrative research who are going to be prepared to give you a little bit of their time and their stories. And often participants are known to researchers in narrative and life history research. And that was the case in my study. They were teachers who I’d had some contact within my work as a teacher educator. So the research then provides other teachers with...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...family think. But at another level our Western society and education has trained us all in certain ways of thinking. The two main kinds are logical thinking and causal thinking...Systems thinking and practice: 3.1 Logical thinking - The classic example of logical thinking is a form of reasoning which goes like this: ‘If all cows are animals, and this is a cow, then it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...Histories, composed around 430 BCE...Session 1: The alphabet: 3 Unfamiliar letters - The Greek alphabet contains a few letters with no opposite number in English. An example would be the letter ‘psi’ (ψ, Ψ) which in English has to be represented by a combination of two letters, ‘p’ and ‘s’. Activity 4 Letters with no English equivalent Timing: Allow about 5...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...family members, for example a daughter receiving inheritance from her parents. Income and wealth can affect one another. Higher income allows households to accumulate a greater stock of wealth through saving or buying assets. This higher level of wealth can then lead to a bigger income stream from assets and investments. At low levels of income households may incur debt...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...history of government policy (stretching back to the 1930s) which focuses attention on what have sometimes been identified as the distressed regions or declining regions. There has apparently always been a ‘regional’ problem. And, of course, the implication is generally that the problem belongs to those regions which are facing it. In a sense it is taken for granted...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...family members, healthcare staff, managers and educators). Batalden and Davidoff (2007) propose that quality improvement is: …the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...history of alcohol manufacture will be explored and you will have the chance to make your own drinks, through an optional home-brew experiment. All these aspects will be explained, so don’t worry if they seem unfamiliar at the moment. There are vivid videos examples to help with this and you’ll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate your new understanding and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs