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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...maths, and drawing, and dreams of being an engineer or designing things. Alex sometimes has self-doubts too about having what it takes to study. Character B: This is Jo. Jo is 15 and thinking about whether to stay on and study after the age of 16. Jo’s brother is going to university. Jo’s mother is a doctor and everyone in their family expects Jo to become a doctor...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...maths, perhaps a tricky technique in how you apply it, trying to understand what the core concepts are if you're reading a fairly long chapter, what we think is the most important things about that and discussing those. You think that's great. That's why we're all there to help us. But when does it kind of shade over the line into, well yes I'm helping you with this...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...maths teacher and University Challenge contestant Bobby Seagull introduces the course. Bobby also helps you in the course sessions. This course has been awarded the Young Money Financial Education Quality Mark. You study eight straight-forward online sessions of 1-2 hours each with: plenty of step-by-step animations and practical tips to help you straight away real-life...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...maths, art and design). The wonderful thing about language learning is that it’s a subject that combines content and skills-based learning, so there is something in it for everyone – as the next sections will show...Week 3: What does learning French involve?: 4 Acquiring language-related knowledge - Knowledge is about knowing and understanding factual information and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...maths and literacy scores; on infant mortality rates; homicide rates; proportion of the population in prison; teenage birth rates; levels of trust; obesity; mental illness, which in the standard diagnostic classification includes drug and alcohol addiction; and social mobility. We put them here, all in one index. They're all weighted equally. Where a country is is sort of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Maths, Computing, Science and Technology (COLMSCT –), part of the HEFCE-funded Open CETL. The authors would like to express their profound gratitude to the participants in the 2008 trial. We are thankful for the many things learnt in discussion with them, lessons that we have tried to incorporate into this course, and we are also grateful for their agreeing to share...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...maths are very different. When you're one-to-one with a service user, you're one-to-one. When you're with a group, you've perhaps got six, eight, ten, or more other people who are there because of the circumstances that have brought them to the group, and you're there with a very different purpose. And it's very democratic, I guess, because you realise that the strength...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...maths department. If it hadn’t been for this chance hospital encounter, accidental in all senses, Victor might never have courted a girl. He already felt well on his way to middle age and his social life was still limited to the chess club. Victor didn’t really feel the need for another person in his life, in fact he found the concept of ‘sharing’ a life bizarre....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs