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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...family museum website. At the time, this was thought of as a way to popularise classical music, and to make audiences more comfortable with hearing music in films. The earliest audiences were often confused about where the music was coming from, especially if they couldn't see an orchestra. Activity 3 imitates Disney's Fantasia process to help pupils analyse different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...family and friends, as well as external professional colleagues, Student Support Team, Tutor Forum, Togetherall (online Mental Health support service) and in-house training sessions. Most tutors said that they would welcome more training to be better prepared to support students with a MHC. Training suggestions were: ‘… anxiety, because that is something that I see...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...families. Intense expressions of emotion are sometimes too much for adults to cope with, and in the wider community the expression of strong feelings by young people, whether anger or boisterousness, can be frightening or viewed as unacceptable. What is sometimes referred to as ‘emotional literacy’ is the ability to register and take account of the strong feelings...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...history, conservation or the environment and does not require any previous experience of studying these subjects....Week 1: What is an ecosystem?: Introduction - Throughout this course you will be considering these overarching questions: What is the importance of understanding ecosystems? How do they work? How crucial is their conservation? But first, what constitutes an...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...family’. Job families are groups of jobs that involve the same or similar kinds of work, and which therefore require the same or similar skills, attitudes and behaviours. Clustering jobs into families can make training planning and delivery more efficient, as well as being useful for other HRD activities, such as remuneration, reward and career progression. Individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...family over breakfast. It’s there as you check or reply to texts, tweets and emails on your phone (if you have a clever one) or your computer. And it carries on throughout the day, whether at work, while you study, or are at play. Language is such an important part of everyday life that it’s easy to take it for granted. In this course you will have a chance to stand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...history from the time of William the Conqueror, who first fancied a castle where it stands, down to the present day. The memory of such successive guests as the Empress Matilda and Henry II. her son, King John, Henry III., Edwards I., II., and III., Queen Philippa, Henry VI., and James I., and Charles I., and Edward VII., abides in the guidebook, and may be summoned from...
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Article 5 mins
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...history of nutrition science. Wilbur Atwater, a Department of Agriculture scientist, began by measuring the calories contained in more than 4,000 foods. Then he fed those foods to volunteers and collected their faeces, which he incinerated in a bomb calorimeter. After subtracting the energy measured in the faeces from that in the food, he arrived at the Atwater values,...
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Video 5 mins