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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...et al., 2021). Not all families can afford access to the internet, digital devices, or are able to purchase paid-for apps. While many resources encourage children’s digital skills alongside wider curriculum outcomes (e.g. literacy and numeracy), the extent to which the activities can be considered play, alongside their creativity and educational value has also been...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...et al., 2016). At the time of writing (2019) there are a number of innovative digital health schemes in place across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Some of these schemes are targeted at specific sectors of the population and are designed to involve service users being more in control of their health and in accessing services. For example, in Wales...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...et al., 2018). However, home care has a role in supporting people to regain physical, emotional and social skills and so we might wonder how technology can support people in this – this is an important question to keep asking ourselves as we increasingly adopt technology in the home care environment. In the following activity, you will read a news article on how...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...et al., 2015) prisoners tend to have higher levels of difficult emotions, such as anger, and more trouble regulating such feelings. Mindfulness can be particularly helpful with emotional regulation (Chambers et al., 2009) prisoners also tend to have higher levels of substance abuse, which mindfulness can help to treat (Bowen et al., 2010) linked to the above, there is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...Modes of Communication; (1) hiding in the sense of disguise; (2) concealment, conceal, or concealed; (3) deception, sham; C. Organic Matter: (1) screen; (2) invisibility; (3) dimness; (4) darkness; (5) dim sight. The final category is D. Dressing in ‘Space and Dimensions.’ It is interesting that ‘veil as dress’ is last on the list of significations. There is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...Le Tentation de Saint Antoine, which he read twice and declared to be ‘splendid’ (UK RED: 17758), Théophile Gautier’s Le Capitaine Fracasse - read in the evening in front of the dining room fire (UK RED: 17784) - and Alexandre Dumas’ Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (UK RED: 13546). He also read non-fictional French prose such as Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, which he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...et al. use the (italicised) categories of level, domain, setting, mode, assumptions and criteria in grouping dimensions of characteristics of environmental decision making. Work through each category selecting some of the levels, domains, settings and modes you have direct experience of and which assumptions and criteria you have come across before. Given that the list of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...mode of management to achieve development goals for the relatively powerless. However, the majority of cases will be more ambiguous, with value-based conflicts, contestation over the definition of development itself, and power struggles. Development management will often remain an ideal rather than a description of what takes place. (pp. 16–17) However, his argument is...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs