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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...world around us and make links between things based on this meaning. This can be very useful when it comes to interpreting what we see and guessing what will happen next, but means order is not necessarily preserved. FalseWell done! We can forget both details and the order in which things happen. In fact, we can be particularly bad at remembering the order of events....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...world there is – so far – no attested case of the formation of any such relationship. But some psychologists are, inadvertently, doing the groundwork through their attempts to develop computerised psychotherapy. These date back to the mid-1960s when the late Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, devised a program called...
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Video 15 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...world Activities A-Z – Being Digital – workplace skills Getting started with the online library Optional activity [Described image] This activity is optional and just for fun. One of the technologies used to share learning and engage with the wider educational community is X, previously known as Twitter. Short messages can be written and shared easily. If you have an...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...world. The research of Hodkinson and Hodkinson (2004) focuses on workers as individual learners, and how the individual is influenced by the wider culture of the workplace. Drawing on socio-constructionism, they suggest that there are four interactive dimensions of workplace learning: a worker applies prior knowledge, understanding and skills the workplace culture...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...world and its practitioners have developed bodies of knowledge. For example, the Association for Project Management (APM) in the United Kingdom defines a project as: a unique, transient endeavour undertaken to achieve a desired outcome. (APM, 2006, p. 150) The net outcome or result allows a broad interpretation of the possible outputs or products for a project. Now that...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...world situations they model. The first image is a diagram showing the magnetic field generated by a bar magnet, and accurately reflects the patterns created physically by iron filings when acted on by such a magnet, as illustrated in Figure 2(a). The image in Figure 1(b) is the result of a computational simulation of the fluid flow around a submerged cylinder, and is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...world, the world which, even down a microscope, you wouldn’t be able to see unless you coloured it with these dyes that showed physical processes. DR SNEADER: He spent wasted, whichever way you want to look at it a lot of time playing around dyeing regions of biological tissue. MICHAEL (VOICEOVER): When Ehrlich added a drop of methylene blue to tissue infected with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...world, which helps to provide a systematic way of thinking about causal relationships. The industry life cycle is a rather different type of model. The aim is still to provide a systematic way of thinking about economic activity but not by analysing particular interactions between variables. The industry life cycle is instead a systematic way of thinking about general...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs