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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...history is just boring facts'. I'm sure you can supply your own version of this closing down of the issue. When we avoid trying to find out why we have failed to learn something there are implications for the long term as well as the short term. In the short term, we abandon a goal to succeed in learning some subject or skill which might have been important to us. In the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...history of careless driving incidents. and so on. We conclude that there were many factors contributing to the cause and the severity of the incident. Figure 6, showing the effect of the four factors Environment, Engineering, Education and Enforcement (the four Es) on road accidents, is actually a very simplified multiple cause diagram, drawn from the perspective of, say,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...family that she might like to have to stay. She replied that she would like to have her two daughters the following week, so four bags of rice then would be a great help. The king agreed to this and suggested that she might like to think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...family and friends; let them know you have decided to start learning Chinese and they can help you when you practise what you have been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello and goodbye and thank people in Mandarin Chinese respond to greeting and thanks use personal pronouns including the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...history of children’s book illustrations. Activity 1 Iona and Peter Opie’s famous collection of children’s books was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1988 and contains approximately 20 000 books printed for children between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Watch the following video that features a visit to this collection at the Bodleian’s Weston Library...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...history of working together in the past and an expectation of working together in the future. Understanding how these dimensions apply to your own team experiences might be helpful when explaining your role within the team to future employers. For example, reflecting on whether you brought specialised knowledge to the team or to what degree you were responsible for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...family. It would have been my mum’s birthday, had she still been alive. And we always go together on her birthday, to visit her. We go to the crematorium and visit the headstone. She died from cancer a few years back. Dad likes it if I go with him. It might sound a bit morbid to you, I don’t know. But it doesn’t feel like that. We look forward to it, to be honest....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...family and work colleagues with whom we discuss and debate much of what we encounter. Reading is both a social and relational experience, but those who are less engaged may never have experienced it as such. Nonetheless, these pupils’ peers, librarians, learning support assistants, parents and teachers can be reading role models who inspire and encourage, explicitly and...
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