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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...intelligence types. In the following activity you’ll watch a video in which he asks what education actually does for learners. [A photo of Albert Einstein with a quote by him next to it. The quote reads: ‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.’] Figure 3 Albert Einstein’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...intelligent life on other planets. If there are such beings they might very well be persons although it is very unlikely that they would be human beings. This course is concerned with the use of ‘person’ that is not equivalent to ‘human being’. Arguably, there are human beings that are not persons (those in a persistent vegetative state). There might also be...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...intelligence around the table, to get it all together. This is going to be a living document. It’s a bit like a strategic plan. It’s a living document. It’s going to be there. And it nearly needs to be our handbook to help us. Narrator For the first part of the meeting, Vivian sets the managers the task of making notes about their specific responsibilities. She’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...artificial glaciers by diverting streams and using spare tyres to create new frozen areas so there can be water in the summer. I mean these are fairly low-tech answers and I think if individuals can do enough to bring about change, just what would be possible if, at a governmental level, change was absolutely required, as I think it will be. Then the inventiveness of the...
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Video 30 mins
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...artificial state, devoid of geographical, historical or political logic’ (Tonge, 2001, p. 634). Both the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority, however, are not static. The size of the majority and minority fluctuates over time. Moreover, both within and outside this majority and minority, other majorities and minorities based on gender, age, sexual orientation,...
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Article 5 mins
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...artificial’ boundary created by the then-imperial powers of France and the United Kingdom (UK). Three years later, having played a major role in successfully pushing back Daesh, authorities in the Kurdish-controlled autonomous region of northern Iraq held a referendum in which more than 90 per cent of voters declared their wish to secede from Iraq. In both these cases,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...intelligence,” Scott Weems tells me. “Humour may be the way of finally getting at what is special about the human condition… I don’t know if it will be in my lifetime, but we’re getting close.” On the opposite side of the USA to Maeve Higgins and Jon Ronson, Jamie Masada is brimming with energy. He’s in the heavily upholstered upstairs bar overlooking the...
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Article 10 mins
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...intelligence agency) reported that more than three million wrist-worn wearable devices, such as fitness bands and smartwatches, were estimated to have been sold in the UK in 2015, an increase of 118 per cent from 2014 (Mintel, 2016). However, what this doesn’t tell us is how many of these users are children. With activity trackers for children being a relatively new...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs