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Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...everyday interactions...This free course is one in a series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. This particular session focuses on communication skills and specifically looks at how to build rapport and get the most out of conversations in community settings. It introduces a psychological model which...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...everyday lives can provide the most fruitful source for stories. And sometimes the mundane mixed with the fantastical can be amusing too...Week 1: Starting to write fiction: 1.2 Creating your own space - Figure 3 Start a ‘writer’s notebook’ to collect facts and fictions, observations from everyday life and things you imagine. Your notebook, or journal, should be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...English prison. Originally drawn in the late 1700s by Francis Wheatley. Note the squalor of the prison, the lack of separation between men and women, and the presence of children, imprisoned with their mothers. Howard’s work was extremely influential and informed a raft of legislation which encouraged local authorities to reform their prisons. Between 1780 and 1799,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...English painter John Everett Millais’s Spring (Apple Blossoms). Millais still follow tradition in associating the season with young girls – by contrast, the French painter Camille Pissarro omitted any human presence from his painting of trees in blossom in the town of Pontoise, while Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of almond blossom eliminates everything but branches...
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Video 15 mins
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...everyday applications in telecommunications: GPS clocks need to be this accurate in order to measure a position with precision, while many applications of the internet require high-accuracy time standards. Mass For mass, the system is slightly odd, as it’s the only one to already include a Greek prefix in the name of the base unit, the kilogram. It is also the only one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...everyday life people rarely gain access to one another’s perspectives in anything like a full way, and that a distinctive purpose of research is to achieve this; and thereby to produce much better explanations for people’s behaviour than the more superficial ones we are usually forced to rely on as practical actors in the world. Indeed, very often from this point of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...everyday life. For example, international trade influences what we can buy, while international policies affect travel and job opportunities. These global decisions often begin with governments, but influence individuals and communities worldwide. Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Record some initial thoughts on what you think international relations means/covers....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...English-speaking user). We will denote by Char the set of characters appearing in Table 2. We will call the codes in the table the ASCII codes of the characters. The original ASCII set (developed by ANSI, the American National Standards Institute) was finalised in 1968, and provides a basic (but by no means complete) character set for English. With the development of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs