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Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...world of growing inequalities and uncertainties, technology can be a source of empowerment, enabling children to become the authors of their futures and to rise above the cycle of disadvantage. (Third et al., 2017, p. 3) In the activity below, you will learn about Aye Mind, a project in Scotland designed to use the internet, social media and mobile technologies to support...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...world. This development was valuable to health systems in many countries and helped them better deal with the needs and preferences of an ageing population. Thanks to their experience in elder care, culturally competent robots also proved useful in education, transportation, and tourism. If today's robots look much more at ease with humans, seem more perceptive, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...world) as a dynamic phenomenon (including schools, curricula, pedagogy and education research). This could involve: drawing on literature that challenges the practice being observed ensuring the student is aware of developments within the subject challenging student teachers assumptions about learning in the subject. Student teachers also need be aware that the knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...world, than have been translated or even catalogued. It is only a small proportion of these that have been shown to have mathematical content, perhaps five hundred or so, compared with the several hundred thousand extant tablets. The results of studying these emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and led to a considerable re-evaluation of the Babylonians, who within a decade...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...world, so he had no access to the variety of colours that we have today. We are told it was when the, the Gold Coast, then Gold Coast, weaver was in touch with the Europeans and so, certain material that they started to unravel, the Europeans, and started using, what they call silk. I’m not very certain whether it was pure silk or not. Well, as far as I am concerned,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...world products or inventions, but actually I think there are many different ways to look at that. And some of them, like Uber for example, or Deliveroo, or Airbnb, they’ve kind of come in to genuinely disrupt existing markets, like transport, eating out, and accommodation. And these are all platform-based ones so they’re clever. And they’ve been driven by what’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...world of mathematics. In this free course, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the classification theorem of compact surfaces...Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this free course, you will learn...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...World War was becoming increasingly characterised by economic, social and political conflicts, they claimed that the figure of the ‘mugger’ was placed in the middle of this crisis. He (muggers were usually imagined as men – young, black men to be more precise) became the focus of social and political anxiety – the ‘mugger’ was seen to represent the breakdown...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs