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A course for the Vocational Education and Training sector to promote effective practice and pedagogy in developing the digital skills of learners for the workplace.

This course explores how digital tools and technologies can be used to enrich apprenticeships in the vocational education sector and help prepare apprentices for the modern workplace. The course shows how to weave in digital resources across the whole apprentice journey from preparation to end-point assessment. It navigates through the Jisc Apprenticeship Toolkit stages of Preparation, Planning, Delivery and Assessment which will help you develop your own designs for a digitally-enriched apprenticeship programme.

This free course for the Vocational Education and Training Sector promotes effective practice and pedagogy in blended learning.

A course for the Vocational Education and Training sector to promote effective practice and pedagogy in blended learning

CPD for Key Influencers of care-experienced young people to support them to make informed choices about their Higher Education options and progression. Topics include financial, wellbeing and application support as well as general Higher Education info.

A free course that examines the genetic basis of cancer and genetic diseases. This includes a focus on DNA, genes and proteins, how mistakes are made, and how this can lead to human disease.

An overview of how nutrition and environmental factors including lifestyle influence your chance of developing human disease.

An overview of how pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) cause disease, how infectious disease is transmitted and how the immune system fights such infections.

An overview of the cardiovascular system and normal cardiovascular function. Description of risk factors, treatments and preventative measures associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension.

A course that examines how to measure the health of a population and understand causes of disease through epidemiology, with an appreciation of how social determinants influence health and how health inequalities exist.

This course will introduce you to some basic data analytics skills in Python, and is aimed at novices with day 1 introducing the basics of Python programming including data types, packages, data cleaning, data exploration and visualisation, as well as some basic data manipulation and statistics. We take a practical approach and aim to get you starting coding early, with short explanations followed by practical exercises to work through. Day 2 will introduce spatial data analytics including visualisation, spatial manipulations and some basic spatial analysis.

This one-day course follows on from CDRC's "Introduction to R" training and will explore more advanced functions in R, parallelisation, reporting, interactive web apps with Shiny in R, and use of R on the Cloud using MS Azure. R is one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages and is the most popular data mining tool in business and academia. One of the key strengths of R is its great versatility for data manipulation, exploration and testing, not to mention its ability to produce publication-ready graphics.

This one-day online course provides a practical introduction to QGIS, a free, open-source Geographic Information System. Short lectures will be interspersed with hands-on practical exercises with plenty of opportunity to work with your own data and seek advice regarding your own projects.

This half-day course aims to provide you with an introduction to the analytical programming language R. The course will focus on data pre-processing and visualisation, two of the key steps in understanding and generating insights from data. During the course, you will learn about the benefits of R, how it handles different data types and how you can begin to use R to solve complex data science, machine learning and statistical problems. Specifically, you will work with R and its various packages to import, clean, manipulate and visualise real world data. The course assumes no prior knowledge of R or statistics.

This one-day course offers an introduction to spatial analytics in a public health context. As spatial data sets get larger, more sophisticated software like R needs to be harnessed for their analysis. This course introduces the basics of how R can be used for spatial data. The course will begin with an overview of different spatial units and how they fit together. Public health examples will be used to illustrate the relevance of using each of these units. You will work through examples of how spatial units can be added into existing data sets.

This 1-day interactive course provides a practical introduction to data visualization with Tableau Desktop, an industry-leading visualization tool. The majority of the course will involve hands-on practical exercises.

The course introduces learners to current research into climate impacts on food systems in sub-Saharan Africa. They will understand how climate change is being felt and understand some initiatives that have been implemented to mitigate its impacts. Learners explore the concept of agriculture and food systems and examine two key methodologies used to analyse climate change impacts on these systems, scenarios and integrated modelling. Learners also assess approaches to increasing climate resilience using case studies from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. Learners engage directly with the methods introduced by applying a scenario-based modelling approach to a country of their choosing.

The course explores the role of borders in intercultural contact, considering them as both ways of separating people and of bringing them together. It contrasts national borders with less obvious, but no less significant, cultural borders occurring both between and within nation states. It also explores different types of border crossings, comparing, for example, the experiences of international students and migrant workers with those of refugees.

This course introduces the concepts of culture and interculturality. It analyses these terms and examines why they and our wider understandings of culture can be problematic. It explores the difference between Culture (what we commonly describe as the arts) and culture as a way of understanding different environments. It examines the way in which cultures by their very nature create in groups and out groups and then moves on to look at ways to observe, classify and describe interactions between cultures.

This Expert Track allows you to explore and build the foundations for a successful career in the digital workplace. It will help you use digital technology more effectively to collaborate with people remotely, communicate online, and build your network. It will also help you develop the skills you need to be adaptable to a fast-paced digital environment.

This free online course explores the atmospheric chemistry of our planet, and others in and beyond our solar system. Earth’s climate and weather often make the front pages of newspapers, as does news of missions to distant planets. In this two week course, two leading academics from the University of Leeds will explain climate and pollution science, and the atmospheres of other planets.

This free online course explores how chemistry plays a part in our lives every day. The production of materials that we need is reliant upon the discoveries that scientists make. Two leading academics at the University of Leeds will explain how knowledge of natural materials has influenced the development of man-made fibres and how chemistry is used in the development of consumer products.

This online course explores the fascinating subject of science at the molecular level. Two leading academics from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds guide you through discoveries in the areas of cancer chemotherapy, and medical imaging and molecular diagnostics.

A free course that examines the impact of human actions and decisions upon the complex systems of the natural environment.

A free course that examines the role and challenges of justice when managing environmental resources.

This free course examines the role and challenges of rights and values when managing ecosystems services.

A free course that examines the impact of scarcity and conflict upon the complex systems of the natural environment.

This course is designed for anyone who has an interest in the human body and specifically the inner workings of the abdomen. The course assumes a very basic level of anatomical knowledge. This course may be of interest to learners at school or college who are thinking of going to university, students at university that want to diversify their learning, current healthcare professionals looking to refresh their skills, and lifelong learners interested in exploring the workings of the human abdomen

This course is designed for anyone who has an interest in the human body and specifically the inner workings of the abdomen. The course assumes a very basic level of anatomical knowledge. This course may be of interest to learners at school or college who are thinking of going to university, students at university that want to diversify their learning, current healthcare professionals looking to refresh their skills, and lifelong learners interested in exploring the workings of the human abdomen.

This course explores key issues and current research into food safety and nutrition in a global context. In this course, learners will consider some of the challenges of ensuring food security faced by researchers, policymakers and individuals worldwide. Learners will explore how large-scale change (industrialisation, globalisation, population growth and climate change) affects food safety and understand the consequences for the world’s health and nutrition. This course draws on research into food safety and nutrition conducted by the University of Leeds, Jiangsu University in China, and The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania.

This course is designed for anyone who wants to know more about modern healthcare, and the role of clinical research and discovery within it

England and Wales have the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe. Almost a quarter of these prisoners are held in overcrowded prisons. On this course, you will take a look inside the prisons of England and Wales. You will consider the role of imprisonment as a form of punishment, and hear from ex-prisoners about their experience of being incarcerated. Through case studies, you will explore the challenges faced by the current prison system. You will identify alternative methods of punishment and rehabilitation, and learn about the debates that exist within the criminal justice system.