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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...et al. (2017) outline the motivators for students and educators to engage in student-educator SoTL partnerships. The key motivators for students were opportunity to be published, gaining research skills and experience and financial support. The top motivators for educators to engage in SoTL partnerships with students were opportunity to be published, having students as...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...motivation and job satisfaction and can extend individual roles and learning. In turn, this can improve productivity, quality and customer focus. It can also encourage employees to be more flexible and can improve the ability of the organisation to respond to fast-changing environments. The benefits and difficulties of team working are summarised well by Mabey et al: A...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...motive. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Health and Social Care. You might be particularly interested in the Open University course K240 Mental health and community...Challenging ideas in mental health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the complexity and dilemmas of diverse perspectives in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...motivating to use? And are we raising a new generation of children for whom technology is as natural as breathing?...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 1.1 From zero to eight - [Described image] Figure 2 How young is too young to be a digital child? It’s difficult to ignore the rapid rate at which young children’s access to technology is growing,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...et al., 2007; Collins, 2008). If social work is such a stressful occupation, what helps social workers to survive, and even thrive? This is a question which researchers have been keen to explore. According to Beddoe et al. (2013, p. 102), research indicates that resiliency is supported by: factors that reside within individuals factors that reside in the organisational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...motivational factor that can help better understand why people engage in collective action (Van Zomeren, 2016; Van Zomeren et al., 2008). One such example is the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA), which seeks to explain how individuals engage in political action to achieve group goals. This covers a variety of different kinds of political action,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...To help do this, it is useful to keep in mind the student experience. Maldrez et al. (2007), through their large sample of student teachers, identified four key themes that underpin the process of learning to be a teacher: the concept of teacher identity or sense of self as teacher the importance of potential and actual relationships with a number of ‘significant others’ the role of emotion in student teachers’ ......
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...et al., 1996)– a popular theory of grief which posits that us Muggles retain connections with the dead long after they have died. via GIPHY In some ways, Harry Potter’s first experience of bereavement is the polar opposite of the bereavement that is the focus of my own research. Harry loses his parents when he is a mere baby – the focus of my interest is in parents...
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