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Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...thinking about reflective and experiential learning. He argued that learning from experience necessarily involves four stages, shown in Figure 1, and that each of these stages draws on different skills and characteristics. Figure 1 Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (adapted from Kolb, 1984) Kolb’s learning cycle shows that learning from experience is about much more...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...system for making sure that all aircraft are safe at all times. In the same way that drivers of cars have to obey the rules of the road, pilots also have a huge number of laws and regulations they must adhere to ensure the safety of the shared airspace, runways and airports. Air traffic managers communicate with pilots and other parties to keep everyone informed about...
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Activity 20 mins
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...system with four massive bombs. Julie Nicholson I think what everyone wanted was something that represented the 52 individuals but also expressed something about the collective nature, and that it would be something that stood as … as a thing of beauty, a work of art. Christopher Wilk We don’t regard ourselves as the sole source of authority. It used to be that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...think. But at the end of the day, we kind of need labels to kind of-- so that we can know what people's needs are. TERRY If you're on benefits, you need some sort of description of what help you need. CHARLENE You know, we're just human beings trying to get on with our lives, you know? So why put a label on it, and make us feel 10 times worse with a label? Video 1 In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...system of energy transfer, a whole complex of organisms living together, linked by energy transfer. The key difference is that ‘area’ defines one, whereas ‘energy relationships’ define the other. Before we can begin to tackle the larger issues of ecosystems and how they have been compromised by human intervention, we must understand what is meant by
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...system in order to infect other computing devices or storage media that interact with the infected computer. A worm exploits the vulnerability of computing devices in a network and replicates itself by finding and infecting other vulnerable computing devices. A Trojan is malware disguised as something useful and can be self-replicating. Ransomware is malware that demands...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...think about dangerousness and the structures we put in place to protect ourselves from various dangers needs to be reconsidered. Prisons, and the harms that prisons respond to, distract us from thinking more carefully about a wider range of dangers that are more imminently and universally harmful than ‘street crime’. 3. DON’T WE HAVE TO LOCK UP VIOLENT PEOPLE,...
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Article 12 mins
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...systems. Finite element analysis (FEA) is an indispensable software tool in engineering design, and indeed in many other fields of science and technology. In this course you will be introduced to the essence of FEA; what is it and why do we carry out FEA? As an example of its use, we will look briefly at the case of finite element analysis of the tub of a racing car....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs