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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...technique utilised to identify what is being said, agree with the learner, summarise the conversation and establish next steps which may include signposting to support and/or a referral for specialist support. In some situations, it may lead to a safeguarding referral which could otherwise have been missed through lack of information and/or recognition of the seriousness...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...techniques which designers use to help them understand problems and generate solutions. Generally design problems comprise several factors. Those factors that are concerned with how people use, understand or interact with designs could be called 'human factors'. Other factors might concern 'materials' or 'manufacture'. Each factor is really a group of related concerns...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...techniques developed by Edward De Bono (1933–2021) who you met in Session 2. Now imagine you were a detective trying to solve the following puzzle… [An illustration of a dead dog laying on its back and tongue out.] Figure 5: Exploring possibilities Take a look at this picture of a dog lying dead. What happened? There are several possible explanations that can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...technique,’ and I explained why, obviously, and that I thought, well, yes, it was a technique, but it was a very well-worthwhile technique for students to learn, to help in their language learning. I can remember just one specific student who voiced this objection. She said she thought it was a useful technique, but that wasn’t what she wanted to be doing in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...techniques which young people might consider when they are planning their films. Activity 6 Timing: Allow about 10 minutes for this activity Watch the film below of filmmaker Gail Block talking about some of the techniques which young people might plan to use. As you watch, write down some of the techniques which are mentioned. [MUSIC PLAYING] GAIL BLOCK: My advice for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...techniques, but there is now increasing research into the genetic engineering of critical antigens. If the genes encoding these antigens can be identified and isolated, they can be inserted into the genomes of harmless bacteria or yeasts (genetic recombination). The expression of these genes can yield commercially useful quantities of pathogen-specific antigens as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...techniques used by science students at residential schools. You will learn how to determine where rocks have come from and how they were made. You will also examine the processes involved in determining the ecology of a particular area...Have you ever wondered how scientists analyse the environment? This free course, Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology,...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...technique in order to actually go from more of the conceptual big picture to getting down to the actual question about, could we capitalise the R&D expense? So initially, just to go through that laddering technique. So the bigger picture was to move from a 590 billion group company to a 1.5 billion FTSE 100 company by 2021. So all of my colleagues, including myself,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs