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Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...World Down Syndrome Day video in a new tab or window and see if you think it portrays the emotion of happiness. Note your thoughts, including any potential drawbacks, about how well happiness was portrayed in the video. Discussion Music, video and other expressive media can at times arguably be used to express intensity of emotion. There is a cost, for example in terms of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...world problems in the care sector, and ideas for other ways of engaging in the research that has potential to make a difference. These types of experiences also taught me the importance of the power of yet. You see, when I was unsuccessful in my research in some way, I would often internalise a feeling of inadequacy, which sometimes became the imposter phenomena, a sense...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...world is as sinister as anything outside. What does this ‘I’, so alone and objective, so acquainted, apparently, with violence, and yet so in need of protection (which in gangland has a specific technical meaning), get up to in the day? What is ‘I’ doing here, what has this I achieved when it’s ‘time to leave’? [...] [The poem’s] resonant first line is...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...worlds and appreciate the need for appropriate professional codes of conduct in this respect...Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere: 1.1 Satellite discoveries - [Figure 1] Figure 1 Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642.(© Science Photo Library) Pisa-born pioneer of the experimental scientific method, Galileo Galilei's analysis of motion paved the way for Isaac Newton's work. He used...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Forensic psychology Badge icon
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
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
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