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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...social researchers. It is important to identify the key features of a qualitative approach. The points in the following video give you an initial idea of the three distinctive features of qualitative research. If you are finding the text in the video too small to read, you can see the full text in the video transcript. 1. It tends to adopt an exploratory orientation in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...social and political. The Civil War has been seen as the true American revolution; it pitted a social and political order based on rugged individualistic capitalism against one of plantation economics and strong social hierarchy, including the system of slavery. The southern model was defeated, the slaves emancipated, and Confederate leaders and sympathisers left to mourn...
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Video 5 mins
The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...social inequality and climate change. This mounting critique of the sharing economy is partly borne out of the frustration that activists, academics and many other citizens feel when they look back at the early 2000s’ euphoria about the capacity of the sharing economy as the ‘third perspective on capitalism and consumerism’ (Heinrichs 2013) to minimise resource use,...
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Activity 10 mins
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...works alongside their male peers, although their works were not included within the classical music canon. The classical music canon became deeply rooted through concerts, history books and music education. As a result, many people have never heard a single piece by a woman composer, let alone know their names. In this article, and also in the accompanying video, we’ll...
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Article 10 mins
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the information and communication technologies that drive our networked world and how they now permeate our everyday lives...We now live in a global village where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...working in health and social care? Discussion You may have thought that it was a good idea to have the involvement of robots as it may help people who are frail to remain in their own home for longer as the robot would be on call to conduct certain tasks. However, you might argue that human contact, affection and compassion cannot be simulated by a robot. Moreover, robots...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...work as a Research Associate. I’m going to examine how conflict in the Middle East risked disrupting research into the future security of the world’s food supplies, and find out how a revolutionary project on the remote island of Spitsbergen acted to keep that research going. This case captures, for me, what makes Geography such an exciting subject to work in and...
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Audio 5 mins
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...work weekends and evenings. I’m not sure if Michael Wilshaw remembers being an inspector and visiting schools, but maybe it has escaped him that teachers have been working weekends and evenings for decades. However, this was also the Chief Inspector who accused teachers of ‘skiving off at 3pm’, so his view of teachers has always been a bit suspect. But in this...
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Article 10 mins