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Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...account other values. When analysing your data, you need to be aware of the values influencing your recommendations and articulate them in your report. The final section will look at how you write the final report...Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work: 6 Writing the report - Following your analysis, you will need to write up your findings and
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...accounts is easily visible, historical posts are not always accessible, not all social media posts are kept by archival institutions, and specialist knowledge is sometimes required to work with such data. Progress and obsolescence [This is a photograph of a Sega MegaDrive.] Figure 5 Sega MegaDrive, a once-popular games console. As new technologies develop, older...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Accounts, with photographs, were later posted across the internet, and this emphasis on display is crucial. Viewers can see for themselves not just how the devices work, but also that, painful though it may be, implantation is more or less bearable. The same techniques were deployed by the Greek physician Galen. When he cut the laryngeal nerve of a squealing pig before an...
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Article 10 mins
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...account for the trustfulness of the young woman on my other hand who wore her gold watch outside her dress, and who turned to the elderly stranger for sympathy in a certain supreme moment? This was when the crowd below crumpled suddenly together like the crushing of paper and the sense of something tragically mysterious in the distance clarified itself as the death of one...
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Article 5 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...account use that. If you don’t yet have one, it’s free and very straightforward to set up. Your task is to compose a tweet (of no more than 280 characters) in which you write about what you are looking forward to as a distance learner. Tweet your message to @OpenLearn, using this hashtag: #ready4distancelearning. Congratulations – you have now taken your first step...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...account for the fact that different numbers may increase together in different way, statisticians have actually come up with several different ways of calculating correlation coefficients that work in slightly different ways and that may give different values to each other when applied to the same datasets. As with all statistical measures, however, a large correlation...
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Video 45 mins
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...account of your own ‘learning life’, drawing on your memory of the interview and any notes you took at the time. Try to become aware, as you begin to construct this biography, of how you are telling your life story and the learning that this narrative describes for you. You could use a first-person voice to narrate this biography (using ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘my’)...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...account for the reasons you trust or distrust your chosen co-workers? What did you find most useful about each of the definitions or themes? Can you think of specific incidents that have impacted on your level of trust in each person? If so, what were they? Feedback The aim of this activity is to start to get you thinking and analysing the reasons why you would choose (or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs