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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...communities, centring them in the design by default, and ensuring that all student’s needs and preferences are accommodated through universal design. Here, Digital Promise and its strong commitment to equity serve as a good example of how EdTech designers can empower diverse communities to surface challenges as they arise in technology use and respond to their feedback...
Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...communication: the linguistic strategies drawn on by call centre agents to build rapport with customers. [The Conversation] I collected and analysed data from a Scottish call centre in the financial sector, combing through company documents, sitting in on training and interviewing staff. I also got rare access to recordings of customer service calls, which are often out...
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...community, both from Iraq and in the UK, having been entrusted with the role of Chair of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London’s Faith Council. He is also the promoter and funder of the UK Israel Dangoor Health Initiative, a collaborative health accelerator programme aimed at connecting Israeli start-ups in the digital health field with the UK’s NHS. These examples,...
How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...communal memorial sites during the kwibuka period. Sometimes icyunamo (time of mourning) is observed. This is the cultural practice of informal mourning that takes place throughout the night, usually around a fire. Regardless of the programme of kwibuka, each process ideally pays respect to genocide victims and works to bring Rwandans together. But not all acts of memory...
Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...communities of Hip Hop heads without giving back anything of value to them. The Institution’s appropriation of Hip Hop has also led to divisions within the Hip Hop community, for example, when certain people and groups receive institutional funding but others are excluded. It has also exposed larger questions relating to Hip Hop’s participation in colonialism and...
When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...communities not to be confronted with language which has historically been used to demean and oppress them; and the right of people with neurological conditions to participate in public life without stigma. From a sociolinguistic perspective, words take their meaning from how they’re used in context. Slurs, for example, aren’t merely unpleasant insults – they draw...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...oral presentations, by giving you the opportunity to analyse examples and then create your own. Using resources such as TED Talk videos, you will see how experts deliver professional talks and famous speeches, observe what works, and identify how language connects ideas and keeps a listener engaged...This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...communications to be hindered by the size of the empire...The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor: 2.3 Intermediaries - The emperor could not be in all places at once, and he employed subordinates and representatives in the provinces to act on his behalf. Exercise 2 You should now read Goodman, pages 100–4 and 107–10, below. This will provide you with an...