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The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...physical health and personal relationships. Whitty and Buchanan (2012; 2016) argue that victims of online dating romance scams suffer a ‘double hit’, as they suffer the loss of a relationship as well as experiencing financial loss. The survey conducted by Buchanan and Whitty (2014) showed that there are large individual differences in the degree of emotional distress...
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...physical notebook or a digital one of some form – as you work through the activities in this course, as they are an important aspect of reflective practice. Alternatively, you might like to record your answers to activities in their associated text boxes. Activity 1 Why are you studying this course? Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes for this activity. Fifteen...
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...physical spaces which restrict and enable certain practices. Spaces are distinctive and develop their character over time. But look, over there. A tree planter’s followers are captivating an audience with their charismatic image and vision. What’s going on? This is leadership as product. We need to understand that leaders and leadership are always packaged and sold to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...physical health problems and the less likely they are to be able to undertake the physical activities that they did when young. However, declining physical health should not be conflated with declining mental capacity. The two issues must be examined separately, even though they interact. This is especially the case for the range of conditions known by the generic term...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...physically impossible for the poor editor to look at it, there’s just too much of it, he hasn’t got time to go through 27 takes or 27 variations of something just to pick out the best shot. So it’s gone on that way. On the other hand, certainly for underwater, the arrival of electronic media was a huge advantage over film. Film you had a 10 minute load; 10 minutes...
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...physically separated from the audience (usually on a stage); the practice of audience members usually paying for entry, and sitting more-or-less quietly during the performance before applauding at the end of each piece; and of performances, which occur mainly in the evenings, having definite beginnings and endings and lasting for roughly 2–3 hours. This concert culture...
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...