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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...De Jonge and Kemp, 2012) How easy was it to decipher the meaning of these text messages? For many children it’s easy, although for others it can seem like a completely new language. Optimists view text message abbreviations as playful, inventive and creative features, but pessimists feel that they threaten more traditional standards of written English, leading to a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...De Bijoux : https://pixabay.com/ en/ reading-comic-album-book-1394124/ Figure 3: © James Chapman Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...de Larrea, Marta Molina, Francisco Rodríguez-Cabrera, Mariano Martín, Paloma Merino-Amador, Jose León Paniagua, Juan F Muñoz-Montalvo, Faustino Blanco, Raquel Yotti, on behalf of the ENE-COVID Study Group* The Lancet 2020, 366: 535-544. Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland. Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Ph.D., Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Ph.D., Pall Melsted, Ph.D.,...
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...De Haan in 1959 who passed on to his son in 1984. They provide packaged holidays, related insurance products (travel, caravan, motor) and then, more recently, branched into financial services products (travel money, credit cards) and latterly health care. As the changing demographics demonstrate, this is a growing market. You can see how the value proposition for older...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...de Jongh, D. and Fourie, W. (2022) ‘Followership: a review of current and emerging research’ Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 43(4), pp. 653–668. Available at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LODJ-10-2021-0473/full/pdf?title=followership-a-review-of-current-and-emerging-research (Accessed 5 October 2023). Oc, Burak., Chintakananda,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...De-identification can take place after a video recording is made by selection of which parts of the recording can be shared, or through digital manipulation, erasing features of people and places. It should be remembered that audio (whether as an element of a video recording or standalone recording) is also now digitally identifiable (and falls under the UK Data...
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...De Montfort University Assistant librarian Management of Library Social Sciences section Supervision of Library assistants Management training Decision taking Budget management Providing relevant and appropriate information 1998 – to date Milton Keynes University Assistant librarian Creation of new library service Business management Process costing Information literacy...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...De Montfort University. He is also a visiting Fellow at The Open University. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Louise MacBrayne. It was first published in February 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs