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Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...change in societal attitudes. The model focuses on the need for society to change policy and attitudes as well as eliminate economic discrimination against disabled people. In reality, although we lean towards the social model more than the medical model, neither is a perfect fit for our approach to creating accessible eLearning. We should adopt the social model approach...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...change how they live to try and avoid future attacks – e.g. by not going into public places. Unfortunately, fear of a panic attack may become such a focus of a person’s life that the fear itself impacts nearly all aspects of their quality of life. In the next section you will find out more about the experience of panic disorder...Panic attacks: what they are and what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...changed or altered in some way. Swanwick suggests that this definition brings to mind the fate of August Gloop from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ‘when he is shot up a pipe into the mincing, mixing, slicing machine’ (Swanwick, 2008, p. 10). But don’t, dear children, be alarmed; August Gloop will not be harmed, Although, of course, we must admit...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...changing world which looks at the different viewpoints surrounding the concept of management and managing...Contemporary issues in managing: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: describe the nature of different types of managerial approaches adopted by organisations in contemporary time understand the purpose of different types of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...change – has been successfully applied to many problems involving motion for several centuries. Such problems vary from calculating the rate of spread of infectious diseases to predicting the positions of the planets, and even designing video games. It was invented independently by both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz at the end of the 17th century. [This is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...changes in the way we live our lives. The article's title includes some very emotive words: 'the end of the world as we know it', and the abstract talks about changing society significantly. I assumed these changes would involve the use of computers – perhaps in a way they are not currently used – because the abstract talks about bringing people 'into closer contact...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...changing attitudes to ancient artefacts. Now, it was collected in the nineteenth century, and at that time people didn’t really appreciate having fragmentary, broken antiquities, so it was stuck together and the cracks were painted over, so it actually looked like a complete beautiful, untouched vase. In more recent times, there’s been a turn towards uncovering these...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...change all of that by coming up with a healthier, more modern brand of jam. Narrator: Less than three years after he first made jam with his gran Fraser’s SuperJam hit the High Street. TV Presenter: Tonight the jammy teenager who’s landed a supermarket deal thanks to his granny’s recipe. Fraser Doherty: When SuperJam was launched there was an incredible amount of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs