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Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...system? What are the main concerns or limitations to WhatsApp? Discussion WhatsApp is used to ask an opinion, share results or get advice from a colleague, or to upload photos or information describing a patient's issue in order to get advice. In crises and emergencies, communicating via instant messaging can be useful. As an advantage, instant messaging allows you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...systems and environments that currently fail children and their health. The following video explores the concepts covered in this course....Children and young people: food and food marketing: Introduction - This free course, Children and young people: food and food marketing, will introduce you to some key contemporary issues regarding children’s relationships with...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...system of the brain and stimulate chemical reactions in our body. They are essentially unconscious processes designed to promote survival in instances where circumstances are too critical to leave responses to conscious decision making. Examples of primary emotions are fear, anger, joy, disgust and surprise. Being key to existence, emotions are universal and part of our...
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Article 5 mins
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...system of specialised protein assemblies that together form what is known as the cytoskeleton. Another term often used is cellular 'scaffolding' which is perhaps rather misleading, since the protein assemblies that make up the cytoskeleton are not fixed, but are highly dynamic and play an essential role in the transport of organelles and some molecules within the cell....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...systems, environmental processes, humans and flora, fauna and other life forms are connected to each other, mixed up, and more-or-less co-dependent on each other. This suggests a world of things, relationships, and experiences made by connections, influences, exchanges and interdependencies between environmental processes, humans and non-humans. Such chains of relation,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...system may have sold a million, but it's a little passé now (Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 Another important instance where we know in advance that an innovation is required is where the existing technology is very mature, and has been incrementally developed as far as it is possible to take it, yet we have identified a need to improve the performance of the product...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...Systems of categorisation and taxonomy developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: for example, in the 1770s the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach sought to explain the diversity of humans by dividing them into ‘types’ or ‘species’ according to the design of their skulls (see Figure 2 above). This kind of early scientific categorisation would...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...systems of racial segregation and discrimination. This course discusses the key events in this campaign for social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement...In this free course, The American Civil Rights Movement, you will learn about the mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs