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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...et résilience face au carnage du 13 novembre à Paris" on Storify] The hashtag #PrayforParis also became a global message, with more than 7 million tweets is several hours. Exploring even a small range of how so many people expressed their resilience is to find meaning in a world that seems absurd, incomprehensible, uncontrollable. Images and symbols highlighting...
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Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...et al., 2010, p. 10) Unlike some of the more formal aspects of justice discussed earlier, restorative justice is an essentially informal approach to resolving and redressing disputes. As Eriksson argues: Restorative justice has been presented as a response to crime that promotes inclusive dialogue, acceptance of responsibility, reparation of harm, and rebuilding of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...institution, a university, and you may well have contacts with others, depending on your research area (e.g. the NHS, schools, charities). You will need to make formal applications, including for registration and funding, that require careful attention to regulations and form-filling. One particularly important example in a psychology PhD will be applications for ethical...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...Institut des sciences sociales du travail de l'ouest] and Gwenola Billon The Regional Directorate of Brittany for Work Employment and Career Training The Committees of the CTGFO CGT and CFDT for the regions of Brittany Loire and Lower Normandy Directed by Oliver Dickinson Produced by Jocelyne Barreau, Université de Rennes 2 Assistant Director Anthony Dickinson Filmed and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...institutions (universities, libraries, museums, etc.) in the UK. Try searching on: tiger site:ac.uk This time you should get pages about tigers from sites in the ac.uk domain. Year To search for pages from a given year or years, you can use the … operator. Try these searches electric cars 2017...2017 steam cars 2000…2010 This doesn’t work perfectly because it can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...et al. (2013), who developed their model of rapport based on coding many hours of police suspect interviews. The interpersonal circles they developed from this research are shown in Figure 2 below. [Described image] Figure 2 The adaptive and maladaptive interpersonal circles taken from Alison et al.’s (2013) ORBIT model (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...institution of learning and scholarship founded by the Ptolemaic rulers of Alexandria in the 3rd century BCE. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A863 MA Classical Studies part 1...Library of Alexandria: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the ancient and modern significance of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...et al., 2013, p. 1040) This work suggests that CFL and LED bulbs exceed the USA regulatory limits for various metals by some considerable margin. This does not mean that the bulbs are therefore toxic, but it does mean they exceed the regulatory limits. (It may be the limits are too stringent.) The energy-efficient light bulb is but one example of where an innovation to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs