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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...techniques for helping children to get out of a kind of culture of bullying, if you like, are group techniques where you are involving the children in understanding and talking about the losses and the gains and why they are involved in this process. I mean it is quite interesting if we ask children, why do you think other children bully? They come away with quite a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...techniques of ‘ratiocination’ (a pre-cursor technique to Sherlock Holmes’s deductive reasoning and Hercule Poirot’s ‘little grey cells’). In an act of playful deception Dupin recovers the letter of the title by switching it with a decoy and leaving it on the filigree card-rack where it had been hiding in plain sight. The idea of the detective fiction as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...Technique oriented. Tendency to reject anything without an obvious application. Not very interested in theory or basic principles. Tendency to seize on the first expedient solution to a problem. Impatient with waffle. On balance, risk oriented not people oriented. (adapted from Honey and Mumford, 1992) Activity 1 Learning styles Timing: Allow 30 minutes for this activity...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...techniques and the voice-as-instrument. Within popular music […] singing is seen as ‘natural’ or innate and women are believed to be naturally better singers. Women’s singing is seen in contrast with the learnt skills of playing an instrument, a kind of direct female emotional expression, rather than as a set of refined techniques […] an assumption which...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...techniques to bring you into the moment to stop your mind from going back and reliving that traumatic event over and over. One of the major symptoms of my PTSD was anxiety. And the app was really good at giving me ways, techniques to manage my anxiety. And slowly I was able to enjoy socialising again. I'd also always wanted a dog, and we got a dog. And that was a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...techniques that would have been familiar to Babbage. It works perfectly. The Analytical Engine was never finished; only models and individual components had been completed by the time Babbage died in 1871. He had beset by financial problems and, following the self-inflicted fiasco of the Difference Engine, unable to obtain government funding. Worse still, Babbage’s own...
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Article 15 mins
Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences

...technique. ‘Bye for now. Developing reading skills...Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences: Conclusion - This free course provided an introduction to studying sociology. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...techniques - In Activity 1, below, you are asked to make notes from a TV sequence and then select some of the information from your notes and combine it with some from LoM into a single short piece of writing. Check the wording carefully to find out exactly what you need to do. Use the LoM index to locate the information you need from there. You should aim to write a few...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs