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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...de Waal presents and discusses examples of collaboration and co-operation between animals (including in problem-solving). He frames the need for co-operation as part of the basis of morality. His discussion includes some early work with chimpanzees, which led to the ‘cooperating elephants’ study that you learned about in Section 5.2 of this course, as well as footage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...prompt a discussion that would both add to your knowledge of them and to your interpretation skills. Understand yourself If you can spot your own feelings of apprehension, you can question why you are feeling that way and what you can do about it – before you maybe get to the terrified state in which you cannot think straight. Know your options Recognising that you have...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...concept. Sometimes the words that go with that concept or idea are completely new and hold no other real-world meaning. But sometimes there are different connections to be made (see Box 1). Box 1 Taking on different meanings Consider, for example, the term ‘behaviour’. For new teachers, ‘behaviour’ is often thought about in terms of ‘bad behaviour’ in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...de-greased and cleansed skin), thought out or discovered how it can be done (soap in the form of a shower gel), designed, set up and run the means for making the thing (raw materials, process equipment, energy source, labour and finance) and delivered it to the consumer. You can see that this nutshell description of what engineering involves already identifies or implies...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...concepts of the influence of predators, sensory communication, coevolution and niche separation. Answer Tree-dwelling mammals may escape terrestrial predators but they are exposed to others, notably birds of prey. Many tree dwellers are nocturnal and there are advantages for some (e.g. flying foxes) in congregating in large numbers, which may have the advantage of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...concepts of property, the difference between private property and public goods is an important distinction. Here a key issue is the economic conditions surrounding the production of goods, and whether production should be based on markets and an economic return acquired through sales of the goods. An important issue in enabling a market to function was seen to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...concept Much can be said about systems thinking. However it is worth reiterating some key points here as they are central to understanding the purpose of the diagrams discussed later in this section. The word system is one that is in regular everyday use. People talk, for example, about ‘the social security system’ and the ‘telephone system’. Gamblers boast about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...concepts of educational leadership and, among other things, will discuss what might be considered good practice in educational leadership and how capacity for improvement could be understood and developed. This Badged Open Course is part of a collection of training resources for school governors in Wales. The collection was developed by The Open University in Wales with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs