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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...concept, Carole Haswell discusses how they work in astronomy, Paul Donald explains their use in conservation science and hydrologist Nick Reynard talks about using models to simulate extreme weather events such as flooding. Question from Jim Hay: "I wonder if you could explain what a model is? The term is used so frequently on science programmes that I just let it slide...
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...concept of friction which Avempace, an Arab scientist, made lots of headway on that topic. Q Good, do you are already beginning to get stuff into your schemes of work? A Yes. Q But I also know that you have talked to other teachers in your department and your own head of department. Can you just say a little bit more about that? A Yes, I have spoken to the head of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...concepts of brain-based learning and brain-based education understand the role of play in brain development recognise practical strategies for developing the curriculum to facilitate children's learning through play and other rich learning experiences...Play, learning and the brain: 1 Play, learning and the brain - Our brain-building starts in utero and we are all born...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...concepts for analysing and developing effective marketing communications strategy within the complexity of the contemporary market environment. As we have already observed, while it is necessary to operationalise marketing communications strategy by combining a number of different disciplines and media, customers experience brands in their own terms. In order to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...concept of ‘good vs bad’ hair as far back as the beginning of the mid-1800s when the European enslavement of African peoples was a system (Randle, 2015). Through European colonisation, Christianity and the enslavement of African peoples, light features like blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin were believed to be physical manifestations of ‘the light of God’. To...
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Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...Concepts of Physical Fitness: Active Lifestyles for Wellness (14th edn), London, McGraw-Hill. Lawlor, D.A. and Hopker, S.W. (2001) ‘The effectiveness of exercise as an intervention in the management of depression: systematic review and meta-regression analysis of randomised controlled trials’, British Medical Journal (Clinical Research edn), vol. 322, no. 7289, pp....
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...concepts as follows: Wellbeing describes and captures a psychological state at a point in time. It is a complex concept, which varies in different contexts and from individual to individual. It bundles together a number of different (but linked) psycho-social factors, from fulfilment, to happiness and resilience, or mental toughness. Resilience is less about a point in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...concepts spiritual value – its significance as a religious site or artefact; the role it plays in spiritual practices. We can now develop and enrich Figure 14 (on the previous page) to get Figure 15. When calculating the value that could be gained by restoring Notre-Dame, we should broaden our scope to include these heritage values, as well as the economic benefits...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs