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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...Mathematics, Cambridge, Icon Books...Reading evidence: Acknowledgements - The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Sebastien Wiertz in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...mathematics. A specific example of improving the quality of writing occurs on page 3, where a piloted writers’ workshop approach in one year group, once evaluated as successful, was adopted across the school, leading to an improvement in the quality of writing across the school. Make sure that staff’s continuous professional development improves the quality of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...podcast content from two UK newspapers, reflecting some of the contrary views on the issue. [Newspaper headlines on young people’s physical health] Figure 1 Recent headlines on young people’s physical health The image of the unfit and overweight teenager has become a staple of anxious multimedia coverage and of popular cultural representation. The picture that comes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...mathematics, or STEM education, as a good thing in order to innovate and modernise so a country keeps pace with others and generates growth and more wealth within society. The model focuses on investment and return. This focus on return means that investment in such things as art education is questioned, but research has found that the quality of education correlates more...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...podcast radio sign language Skype speech telephone text touch TV Twitter voice-simulator and many more...Good communication: 1.1 Barriers to communication - Good communication is vital in social care. It enables us to build relationships with the people we care for and their families, develop relationships with people we work with and other professionals, provide clear...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...mathematical notation and there are large numbers of diagrams and illustrations. Students are expected to study data, maps and charts and to interpret their meaning. Which aspects of the activity might some students find challenging? What adjustments could be made? What alternatives could be provided? What information would you provide to alert students to potential...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...mathematical rules for probability need to be explained. From the die example earlier, a reasonable definition of a probability can be concluded as follows: Probability of an event occurring equals left parenthesis number of outcomes for that event right parenthesis divided by left parenthesis total number of all possible outcomes right parenthesis Probability is...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...mathematically. They saw this particular proportion in the structure of shells, horns, flower heads and many other examples of nature. Since this time it has been used as a guiding principle for establishing proportion. Let’s look at its characteristics. Figure 15 The golden ratio can be visualised by dividing a rectangle into a smaller and a larger part in ratio of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs