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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Write these down, they might be useful later. Remember, this is an observational experiment – try taking photographs of your experiment. This will help you to remember the results later and allows you to share your results with your fellow learners. You will have the opportunity to discuss your results in the next section...Week 2: Unique properties of water: 2.1.2...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...write this course, the context for work with young people continues to change. A change of government can bring new priorities, but so too can other events. For example, funding for work with young people is being reduced at the time of writing due to austerity measures, and increasingly being concentrated on targeted work with young people. These three issues suggest...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...write down the correct rounding. ROUNDED TO NEAREST NUMBER 10 100 1000 254 987 254 980 254 990 255 087 12 345 12 350 12 400 12 000 963 960 1 000 1 060 Answer The corrected entries are in bold. ROUNDED TO NEAREST NUMBER 10 100 1000 254 987 254 990 255 000 255 000 12 345 12 350 12 300 12 000 963 960 1 000 1 000 Activity 3 The population of London in 1984 was 6696 000 (to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...writes a letter of resignation. Most people would infer from this description of events that Larry is angry. Still, on the face of it, nothing explicit has been said about Larry's emotional state. Instead, we have been given a very complex description, involving a number of different elements. An eliciting event or situation: Bella tells Larry that his project has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...writing a present-tense, very detailed account of what that trauma was. And then you read it. And you read it over and over and over and over again, until eventually you become desensitised to it. And I think really that was one of the most powerful steps in the app. And so because I was guided by the therapists, they were meeting me regularly, I felt confident enough to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...write down your thoughts and feelings based on the issues being discussed. There will be a few simple questions that encourage you to focus your thinking. It would be helpful for you to spend some time thinking about what you have learned within each section, and how it relates to your current role. These activities are not there to test you, but designed to help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...writings of noted systems thinkers. But the essence of systems is not just communicated by these words and ideas. The essence of systems thinking and practice is in ‘seeing’ the world in a particular way, because how you ‘see’ things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. And how you ‘see’ things is influenced heavily by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less involves our friendly loyal listeners getting data, analysing the data, sending us the results and writing all kinds of interesting things. They might blog about it; they might just email it to us. So there’s lots of good stuff going on. KEVIN MCCONWAY: Yes, that sounds excellent. TIM HARFORD: Compare...
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