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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...perceptions of teaching in an online environment and in a face-to-face environment found that the online teacher should have a greater pastoral focus than that of a face-to-face teacher, and that often both teachers and learners needed guidance and training in communicating online. Without the ‘comfort’ of a physical classroom environment, learners can feel isolated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...perceptions about social justice and civic engagement. Develop attitudes of care and empathy for others and the environment, and respect for diversity. Develop values of fairness and social justice, and skills to critically analyze inequalities based on gender, socio-economic status, culture, religion, age and other issues. Participate in and contribute to contemporary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...perception, reasoning and action, in the case of Winston above; decision making, problem solving and learning in Bellman's definition. Observation 3: The overwhelming focus is on human intelligence. You may recall that Descartes considered animals to be simply mindless automata. The quotation from Hobbes' Elements of Philosophy above suggests that Hobbes too thought our...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...perceptions regarding what is important in this text. However, we probably agree that the core information includes the types of people affected as well as the definitions, location, causes and effects of under-nutrition and over-nutrition. What you highlight also depends on your purpose for reading. For example, if I were only interested in details about the likely...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...perceptions of number as they tackle different problems. Some learners strongly prefer to think of an unknown quantity as having a specific value. They experience what researchers call ‘a compulsion to calculate’. You can test this preference by asking diagnostic question such as these: multiline equation line 1 If postfix times two times m equals 12 comma what is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...perception of religious diversity in history. In this way, the past becomes a potential inspiration for thinking and action in the present rather than assuming its irrelevance and inferiority. By offering them short ‘clippings’ accessible online – some of which are visual as well as textual – rather than extended conventional textbooks, the aim is to accommodate...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...perceptions, while also learning more about how others might view or approach a problem. This is what is known as bicameral practice (Connolly, 2005). A bicameral approach advocates keeping an ever-present openness to alternative ways of being in the world and of seeing the world. In practice, a bicameral approach usually means trying to be generous and hospitable to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...perceptions of the body...The history of medicine: a Scottish perspective: 1.1 Introduction - The ‘welfare state’ and its future are frequently a topic of passionate debate. Its philosophy, best embodied in the expression ‘from the cradle to the grave’, is based on the principle that one of the duties of the state is to care for the well-being of its citizens at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs