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Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...course, Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach, the focus is on three different environments where children experience violence...Children are subject to many forms of adversity, for example, poverty or ill health. However, a significant form of adversity experienced by children in many different regions of the world is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...course looks at a range of different views on the question, contrasting different conceptions of Europeanness and outlining competing visions for the future of the EU...The European Union (EU), formed out of the ashes of the Second World War, continues to expand in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite the EU's growing size and significance, the question...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...course produced in collaboration with MoneySavingExpert.com...Understanding mortgages is a free, short course produced in collaboration with MoneySavingExpert.com. The course explores the mortgage products available in the UK market – their interest rate and other characteristics – and examines the factors involved in making good choices from the product range. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...course, Teaching secondary science, will identify and explore some of the key issues around science pedagogy in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on your practice as a science teacher and develop a greater awareness of the wider context of science education and how this affects science in the secondary school...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...course explores how the teaching and scholarly community is working to ensure this curriculum remains relevant for the twenty-first century. It is aimed at parents, faith and community group members and all others who might be interested in the purpose and content of religious education in schools...Religious Education is a statutory requirement for all school children in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...course, Library of Alexandria, encourages you to reflect upon and critically assess those factors. Interpreting an ancient text, or a piece of material culture, or understanding an historical event, is never a straightforward process of 'discovery', but is always affected by things such as translation choices, the preservation (or loss) of an archaeological record, or the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...course, Reading visual images, is an introduction to analysing and interpreting photographs as social data. Who controls what the image is saying? You will look at how photographs provide visual evidence and how they can illustrate and support our ideas about society...What does a picture or an image tell you? This free course, Reading visual images, is an introduction to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs