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Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional...This free course, Understanding your customers, is a short introduction to understanding customers. The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals, members of society and members of organisations. It clarifies some key marketing concepts and terminology and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...systems they seek to explore. In a context saturated with hype and hope, there is a need for more varied insight. The provision of this is one of the key achievements of The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education. Edited by Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn (of Thesis Whisperer fame) and Pat Thomson, this scholarly edited work...
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Article 5 mins
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...think about taking other courses...Take your teaching online: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The Z Files: Tony Waithe
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Tony Waithe

...think they’re quite inspired to see a young black guy kind of in their environment. I think I add a bit of flavour to their world. Benjamin Zephaniah So Tony I want you to use your imagination now and think of the young Benjamin Zephaniah or somebody like me, how can I follow my dreams? I want to be an inventor, where do I go? Tony Waithe You go inside; you realise your...
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Video 5 mins
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...think that knowing about country facts or differences between cultures is the key to being interculturally competent – but that is in fact only a small piece of the puzzle! Intercultural competence is an umbrella term for a range of qualities, attitudes and skills that allow you to mediate and communicate appropriately and effectively with people from different...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough
Society, Politics & Law

The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough

...system to prevent fraudulent or malicious applications. All applications to join the Labour Party as a member, affiliate or supporter are verified and those who are identified by our verification team as being candidates, members or supporters of another political party will be denied a vote. The so-called “purge” is part of a broader effort by the party, known as...
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Article 5 mins
What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...think and feel – and the right to a fair trial. Odi, an outdated NHS caregiving Syth who features in both seasons, chooses a form of suicide (returning to his original setting and rejecting consciousness) as he can’t deal with his new reality. Transcript The robots that inhabit the future theme park in Westworld are also introduced as the playthings of the super-rich....
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Video 10 mins
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...system which respects democratic values … should apply to all users regardless of their nationality, status or function.” Given all this, it is a matter of profound concern that for over three and a half years, the Council of Europe’s own archives have essentially been closed to the public. (I say essentially as I am aware that access to the archives was enabled for...
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Article 5 mins