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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...de facto evidence of incapacity in and of itself, for anyone, not just for a person with a learning disability...Week 6: Learning disabilities: 3.2 Extreme measures - In a democratic society, for the state to forcibly and permanently take away a person’s capacity to reproduce is by any measure an extreme act, and potentially an intrusion on their freedom and human...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...de Guerre [French Iron Cross]. In addition, 171 men of the regiment were also presented with an individual Croix de Guerre for their valor. Several soldiers were also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. The 369th was not the only black World War I regiment, nor the only one to fight valiantly, but it is perhaps the most famous. (Burger, 2017) Among the 171 members of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Perryman, L.A., Pitt, R. and Weller, M. (2014) ‘OER Evidence Report 2013–2014’, OER Research Hub [online], http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 41866/ (accessed 1 July 2019). Downes, S. (2001) ‘Learning objects: resources for distance education worldwide’, IRRODL, vol. 2, no. 1 [online], http://www.irrodl.org/ index.php/ irrodl/ article/ view/...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...De Visu / Shutterstock; Juanmonino / iStock. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...maths, teachers PE are competent sports folk, and those who teach French surely can speak it. We wouldn't expect a French teacher not to be able to be confident within the language. Yet partly in the way higher education is structured, teachers of English and literacy and primary-secondary schools are more likely to have taken English literature as an A level or degree in...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Carmarthen: Independent Thinking Press. Strong-Wilson, T. and Ellis, J. (2007) ‘Children and place: Reggio Emilia’s environment as third teacher’, Theory Into Practice, 46(1), pp. 40–7. Tovey, H. (2017) Outdoor Play and Exploration. The Froebel Trust. Available at: https://www.froebel.org.uk/ uploads/ documents/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...de Boys (brother to Orlando and Oliver) arrives with the news of the usurping Duke's sudden conversion to a life of religious solitude, and the reversion of the crown to his exiled brother, Rosalind's father. We have just analysed the play in terms of classical dramatic structure. Modern criticism has suggested other ways of looking at the play's structure, which you will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...de-platforming’ those whose views are thought to be ‘disagreeable’ or cause ‘offence’ are now at the frontline of today’s ‘culture wars’. On one side are those who argue that in a democracy people must be allowed to speak freely – even if that means airing views that might offend others. On the other side are those who defend their right ‘not to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs