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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in your OpenLearn profile within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Katharine Reedy, Natasha Huckle and Wendy Mears. Except for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...et al., 2016) suggests that learners also need to look for structure. The next two activities in this section exemplify each approach. In the first approach, the intention is for learners to observe a pattern of change across a sequence of examples by asking ‘What is the same and what is different?’ Activity 5 Looking for changes Timing: Allow 10 minutes Each term of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...et al., 2014). The following text is a summary of this paper. After you have read it, complete Activity 6. Planetesimals are thought to be formed from the solid material of a protoplanetary disk by a process of dust aggregation. It is not known how growth proceeds to kilometre sizes, but it has been proposed that water ice beyond the snowline might affect this process. To...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...et al. as ‘robust networks of people, artifacts, and institutions that generate, share, and maintain specific knowledge about the human and natural worlds’, and include individuals, organisations, routines, shared norms and practices (2013, p. 5). It’s useful to adopt this inclusive definition, for example, it would include this course, or an archive or a library,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...et al. (1996) ‘Continental break up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic’, Earth Science Reviews, 40, Elsevier; Figure 3d T.C. Pharaoh (1999) ‘Palaeozoic terranes and their lithospheric boundaries within the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ)’, Tectonophysics, 314, Elsevier; Figure 3e J. Golonka and D. Ford (2000) ‘Pangean (Late
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...et al., 1988). Furthermore, whether people are constrained or enabled, they experience, negotiate and are creative, not only in practice, but also in the stories told about this practice. The stories homeless women tell about their experiences of housing are considered especially important, since we understand them as ‘going beyond’ the event, offering an evaluation...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...et al. (2001) the longer-range dispersion allowed the formation of secondary pollutants such as sulfate and nitrate aerosols and ozone to be covered. The number of receptors affected by the pollutants depends on the height of the discharge and the number of people in the area. This was taken into account by considering three discharge heights (50 m, 90 m and 100 m) and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...et al., 2014). Although most AMHPs are social workers, they do not tend to undertake AMHP duties full-time once qualified. Their role as an AMHP is to provide a balance to that of the medical practitioner who is also involved as a ‘responsible clinician’. Social workers who are AMHPs (as well as social workers who are not AMHPs) will undertake a range of other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs