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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice 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, draft essays or manage a busy work schedule. 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
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...motives, his beliefs, his identity, his experience. He also conveys that his decision to write a protest was his alone. His identification of his audience is less precise than his identification of himself. He conveys a strongly accusing tone, without saying whom he is accusing. For example: ‘the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...motivated a conscious policy of territorial expansion. Certainly some sectors of Roman society did very well out of it: senators and tax collectors could become very wealthy, while the traditional one-year imperium for magistrates encouraged individuals to strive for glory while they could. Consequently, money, loot and slaves all flowed to Rome. As for a ‘concept of...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...motives, values and judgements, such as: What is the purpose of this activity? What values and principles are being followed? How and why do young people get involved? What do they (and the workers) get out of it? What seems successful, and less successful, in what is done – and how should we judge? What might be done differently? As an example, here are some...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...et al, devised a number of split brain experiments using people who had had split brain surgery as participants and comparing their responses to people who had not had this surgery. In one experiment the split brain participant was blindfolded and given objects to explore with their left hand. Information from the left hand goes to the right hemisphere but speech is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...motivation for, and best practices of, an agile approach to software development explain the benefits of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a standard notation for modelling identify the different kinds of model used in the development of software and describe the relationship between models, viewpoints and software development...Approaches to software development: 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...et the needs of their end users, stakeholders and staff to ensure they thrive and succeed. The COVID-19 pandemic forced accelerated change throughout the world, which could not be planned for, and rapid change programmes where implemented. As we adapt to hybrid ways of working and expectations, organisations are drawing on their experience to start to consider how to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...motivations, helpfully written out by the author, in a way that we cannot so easily achieve in real life, unless we know a person very well. This additional information given to us by the author may also help us to imagine what it is like to be in another person’s shoes. Perhaps, then, when we are less able to spend time with other people in real life (such as in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs