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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...change that a single book may make to an inexperienced reader), and there is a perfectly natural urge to revisit them. But if we look a little more closely, problems arise. It might be that the books read as a child were actually an escape, and that it is the escape, not the childhood, that the reader wishes to relive: far from being a happy, lost state, many (perhaps...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...change. We can then assess how far the 19th-century studio tradition continues to influence the snapshots we take today. We shall return to this question throughout the course. But before we start to analyse the studio tradition in detail, let's consider the nature of the photograph as a source of evidence in historical research...Picturing the family: 2.2 Photographs as...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...change one of the spark plugs because it was virtually out of reach behind other components, even when the special flexible plug spanner provided by the manufacturer was used. Of course, it was no trouble to insert the plugs before the distributor, carburettor, air filter, gear-shift connector, choke cable and so forth had been bolted on. In other words, the design is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...changes. Vaisman and Fichman (2012), cited in Fichman & Sanfilippo, (2016, p.6) consider four factors to explain the variety within trolling behaviours depending on: i.Location: The distinction between asynchronous (when people communicate but not at the same time such as blog comments) and synchronous communication (live conversation such as chat room). Both types of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...change and complex, competing demands (Grant and Kinman, 2015, p. 5). In this free course, Supporting and developing resilience in social work , you investigate how you, as a social work practitioner, can be supported to enhance your emotional resilience. In the first section you explore the idea of resilience and begin to develop your own ‘emotional resilience...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...change and update models to reach workable solutions much earlier in the design process. This kind of approach is commonly referred to as the push-button solution. Pensive analysts are petrified of push-button analysis. This is because of the colossal errors that can be made at the push of a button. The errors are usually uncontrollable and often undetectable. Some...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...change, i.e. equation sequence 0.034 divided by 100 equals 0.34 divided by 1000 equals 3.4 divided by 10 000 equals 34 divided by 100 000 equals 340 divided by 1000 000 And as 1000 000 is a million, we can see that 0.034 parts per hundred can also be written as 340 parts per million, or 340 ppm. Table 1 shows that the percentage of chromium in the Earth’s crust is...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...change a nappy of sort of a 10-year-old child. And I’ve got no experience with that. But you actually just had to get on with it. Ask all the questions that you needed to. Get support from the staff. I think that’s one thing I learned quite quickly was to ask, when I wasn’t sure, just to ask for support, or ask for someone to come and show me what I needed to do....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs