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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...account, remain more or less as they were in our ancestors. In Eaton et al.’s (1988) memorable phrase, modern people are like ‘stone-agers in the fast lane’. What are the implications of this for our well-being? Physically, it has been suggested that many of our chronic health problems, for example atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), diabetes, high blood...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...accountable for your decisions to delegate tasks and duties to other people. Section 13: Recognise and work within the limits of your competence. Section 14: Be open and candid with all service users about all aspects of care and treatment, including when any mistakes or harm have taken place. Section 16: Act without delay if you believe there is a risk to patient safety...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...account inflation and the cost of living in each country and provide a tool for comparing economies across time and geography. One way of thinking about purchasing power parity is to consider the local prices paid for a globalised product, and then relate the local prices to a “standardised” price, such as the price in dollars. A lighthearted and informal way of...
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Video 45 mins
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...accounts of personal experience. A piece of research is also likely to take place over a significant period of time, and if conducted properly will help you to consider what works and also provide insights into why it works. If these conditions apply, then the work that you are undertaking does constitute ‘research’. This has further implications: The work should take...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...account of the earliest stage of this object’s biography – its production. Discussion Despite the lack of certainty around some of the observations, it is possible to outline a basic sequence of events. Here is my attempt: Somewhere in Africa or India an elephant grew a tusk (assuming the object is made of elephant ivory). The elephant died and its tusk was removed...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...account, a speech he gives to the Athenian leader Pericles, seemingly extolling the virtues of Athens. But we ask whether it’s really that straightforward. Leaving Athens and the Greeks we move on to the Romans. During the last four centuries BCE, Rome grew from being a local power in central Italy into a city that dominated the Mediterranean world. This was achieved by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...account by using the search function and then filtering by ‘Page’. [Screenshot of different Facebook Pages.] Figure 2 Facebook Pages tend to be created by companies, celebrities, and those with strong brands. This will include universities and student led organisations like the NUS in the UK. Only administrators of Pages can post new core content to the account,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...account of what that trauma was. And then you read it. And you read it over and over and over and over again, until eventually you become desensitised to it. And I think really that was one of the most powerful steps in the app. And so because I was guided by the therapists, they were meeting me regularly, I felt confident enough to take those steps, that if I was feeling...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs