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Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...math, science, marks went up 20 percent on average last year. And I think what's very revealing is that the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much, are starting to notice the caliber of students coming to them is falling. These kids have wonderful marks; they have CVs jammed with extra-curriculars, to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...de Saintonge, L. and Smith, M. (2012) To Practise What we Preach: An Exploratory Survey of Values in Charities, London, Cass Business School. Also available online at www.cassknowledge.com/ research/ article/ practise-what-we-preach-exploratory-survey-values-charities (Accessed 18 August 2015). Hester, R., Rogers, A. and Robb, M. (2013) ‘Making sense of organisational...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...de-greased and cleansed skin), thought out or discovered how it can be done (soap in the form of a shower gel), designed, set up and run the means for making the thing (raw materials, process equipment, energy source, labour and finance) and delivered it to the consumer. You can see that this nutshell description of what engineering involves already identifies or implies...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...de-sac? In the 1980s, a lot of research effort was expended on developing a technique known as ‘coherent detection’ of optical signals. The technique involved applying to optical signals a method that is widely used in the detection of radio signals, but that is much more difficult to do with optical signals because of the very much higher frequency of light (of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...de libération nationale led the fight for independence. The colonising countries generally viewed such violence as terrorist activity. Citizens of the colonised countries inevitably perceive this as a delegitimization of their struggle for liberation. This difference in perspective is one reason it’s hard to get an international consensus on what terrorism is,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...de/documents/publications/studies/Photovoltaics-Report.pdf (Accessed 7 August 2024) Global Carbon Project (2023) Briefing on key messages: Global Carbon Budget 2023. Available at: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/carbonbudget2023/ (Accessed: 4 August 2024). IEA (International Energy Agency) (2021) Net zero by 2050: a roadmap for the global energy sector. Available at:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...De Lima, M. S., Horta, B. L. et al. (2007) ‘The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis’, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(6), pp. 942–948. Reale, L., Bartoli, B., Cartabia, M. et al. and Lombardy ADHD Group (2017) ‘Comorbidity prevalence and treatment outcome in children and adolescents with ADHD’, European Child &...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Maths everywhere For each one, consider and write brief notes about: the intended learning outcomes the activities that learners are asked to do the range of media that are employed the teaching sequence. Discussion As you look through these courses you will have seen a range of activities that learners are asked to engage with. Some, such as Play, learning and the brain,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs