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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: show knowledge of how to plan and carry out sensitive observation and information gathering appropriate to educational settings use appropriate small-scale research methods to understand and support children’s learning understand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...skill. For example, it is this capacity, known as inhibitory control, that enables us to be polite when we're given an unwanted present, or to avoid taking the usual route to work to avoid a burst water main. Occasionally, this skill of inhibitory control fails us and we act automatically, without thinking. We might lose our inhibitory control after a glass of wine,...
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Activity 10 mins
Is your next career move in cyber security?
Education & Development

Is your next career move in cyber security?

...skills image] A new free course has been designed specifically for those looking to explore a career in an exciting sector. Who is this course for? This informal introductory course is for you, if: You want to understand cyber security concepts. You’re keen to explore a career in the cyber security sector. You want to feel more confident about your online safety. Check...
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Article 5 mins
Ouverture: Intermediate French
Languages

Ouverture: Intermediate French

...skills whilst offering insights into many aspects of every day life in modern France. Your knowledge need not be formal; it could come from adult education classes, time spent in French-speaking countries, regular contact with French-speaking people or other sources. The course materials are carefully designed to develop the four language skills of speaking, listening,...
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Video 12 mins
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...studied geometry, optics and perspective and also learnt the technical skills of foundry and metalwork. 1470 - 1473 Verrocchio was commissioned to paint Baptism of Christ. This is the first evidence of a Leonardo painting, on which he assisted while still in Verrocchio’s studio. He painted the angel on the extreme left of the picture. Verrocchio painted in tempera,...
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Article 30 mins
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...studies on social reproduction and discourses on motherhood and child development. In this video Dr Michal Nahman explores the motivation behind the research on commercial human milk chain in India, and how this led her and her co-author, Professor Newman, onto the curation of the ‘This is Essential Work’ exhibition. Transcript This is essential work Artists from the...
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Video 5 mins
What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...studies have claimed that these multiple demands on our attention are impacting on our ability to concentrate and connect with people. Animals in the wild also face similar challenges. All animals have only a limited amount of attention, and it must be shared between an array of tasks, including locating food, maintaining social bonds and keeping a watchful eye out for...
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Article 5 mins
The RFS Career Academy Free Learning Collection
Education & Development

The RFS Career Academy Free Learning Collection

...skills? This selection of free online courses and content is here to help you with your career...[RFS career academy logo] These free courses and helpful articles have been curated by RFS Career Academy in partnership with OpenLearn, the free learning website from The Open University (OU). All the content has been written by academics from The OU and can be used to...
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Article 5 mins