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Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...podcast or reading a book that they have produced to learn ‘everything (or at least the most important things) [your] hero and mentor has dedicated decades and thousands of hours of his or her life mastering’. Activity 4 Who could become your ‘virtual mentor’? Timing: Allow about 30 minutes In his blog post, Rashid (2015) identifies his own virtual mentors,...
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...podcast-montgomery-bus-boycott-womens-political-council (Accessed: 15 February 2023). Christensen, S. (2008) ‘Women’s Political Council of Montgomery’, Black Past, 11 January. Available at: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/women-s-political-council-montgomery (Accessed: 15 February 2023). Christie, L. (2021) ‘AI in policing and security. London:...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...mathematics, engineering or medicine. But sometimes it can be very difficult to know how much long-term understanding people have acquired. Anything we learn undergoes complex changes as our brains try to fit it in with what we already know. So, if you ask ten people what they made of the same book or lesson, you may well get ten different answers. Perhaps there are as...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...mathematical equations which help in performing calculations involving moles (they are in fact two forms of the same equation): Mass of a substance = (number of moles of substance) × (molar mass of substance) (1) Number of moles of a substance = mass of substance /molar mass of substance (2) If you were asked to find the number of moles of water in 100 g, this is one way...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Mathematics. Edited by G. H. von Wright, R. Rhees, G. E. M. Anscombe. Basil. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Wittgenstein, L. (1992, 3rd edition) Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G. E. M. Ascombe. Oxford: Blackwell...Introducing Ethics in Information and Computer Sciences: Acknowledgements - This content is made available under a Creative Commons
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...mathematics of it. The first time I led a group, a long time ago now, I remember thinking, gosh – I knew this intellectually, but suddenly realising that I was one, and they were many – that the maths are very different. When you're one-to-one with a service user, you're one-to-one. When you're with a group, you've perhaps got six, eight, ten, or more other people who...
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...mathematics, which filled up his time almost completely, so he wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted with a wife. Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness, but also a multiplicity of physical drawbacks – blood, sex, children – which were unsettling and other. Yet something in him yearned to be surrounded by the...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...mathematical model of what's going on with the stimulation in Ryan's brain. MICHAEL JOHNSON: So if we were stimulating the brain of an athlete who was, say, a swimmer and focused on shoulder movement-- DANIEL CHAO Absolutely. MICHAEL JOHNSON --would we actually place this in a different area of the brain? DANIEL CHAO That's exactly right. So the part of the motor cortex...