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History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...et al., 2010). BA Decorative Art graduate – freelance glassmaker, button maker, gallery employee and trainer ‘I started off by working in a gallery. […] The staff were wonderful and I started teaching there; that was a big break. […] Now I work in a gallery one day a week, I work as an invigilator (which is quite a menial job but it gives me a chance to think), I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...et al. (2013), who developed their model of rapport based on coding many hours of police suspect interviews. The interpersonal circles they developed from this research are shown in Figure 2 below. [Described image] Figure 2 The adaptive and maladaptive interpersonal circles taken from Alison et al.’s (2013) ORBIT model (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...levels | Books | The Guardian Good e-Reader (2022) Book sales in the United Kingdom are booming - Good e-Reader (goodereader.com) BePolar (2019) Les chiffres et le palmarès des ventes du genre Polar dévoilés par l'Observatoire de la librairie (bepolar.fr) Acknowledgements Image of Andrea Camilleri Image of Georges Simenon Image of Hercule Poirot Image of Maj Sjöwall...
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Article 5 mins
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...motivation in the Natural History Unit to try and bring these conservation messages across, so we’ll try and do it through other mediums. We try and work a lot with the websites and with conservation organisations to try and help them, but also, at the end of a lot of our series we have these ten minute sections, the making of, the behind the scenes sections and...
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Video 30 mins
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...motivation, dealing with stress and becoming more confident as a learner. On the hard side, which is more likely to depend on the discipline studied, they value being able to take detailed notes, write essays or do mathematical calculations. Activity 2 Timing: Duration 20 mins What sort of approach best fits your attitude to study? Select five skills from the following...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...motivated to participate as well as kept informed about politics, democracy and the workings of society. There is also an element of personal responsibility, i.e. they need to make the effort to engage. Active citizenship is not a static term: it can be understood on a spectrum (Wood et al, 2018). It can be understood in a minimal sense (activities which relate to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...et al., 2019) Figure 2: Declines in labour share across advanced economies have been widespread but not uniform Activity 2: The distribution of income between workers and firms Timing: 3 minutes What does the figure tell you about the proportion of national income held by workers? What can we extrapolate about the share held by entrepreneurs and shareholders? Discussion...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon footprints - There are different...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs