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Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...everyday. Do you talk to your kids everyday? About everything that’s going on? Everything? Speaker Two Yeah. Vivian McConvey You don’t say, I’m gonna sit down tonight and consult with you. Speaker Two They would run out the door. Vivian McConvey They would. So what are you doing with your kids? Speaker Two We need to talk to them. We need to have that conversation...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...English Letters appear in 1734 and are a very early example of the great valuation that the Philosophs put upon his technique. The article in the Encyclopaedia is enormously long in comparison to the apparently insignificant nature of the procedure. One of the things about inoculation that must have appealed to the Philosophs was it’s simplicity, this wasn’t an arcane...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics of the user,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...everyday lives. Plastics are some of the most useful materials on Earth. They are almost entirely man-made, and the world around us would look very different without them. But they can also present challenges to the environment and human health. For example, there is growing concern about plastic materials (Eriksen et al., 2014) and microplastics (Vandermeersch et al.,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...everyday familiar with fresh academic eyes. One thing that happens to a number of professional doctorates is that their sense of who they are changes. They assume a new identity. Dr Aubrey-Smith asks Kathy how her sense of self developed during her professional doctorate journey? Kathy believes that all students begin their professional doctorate journey suffering from...
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Article 5 mins
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...everyday existence. Whether you’re sharing an amusing story down the pub, making a self-deprecating joke after someone pays you a compliment or telling a dark joke at a funeral, humour is everywhere. But what is it for? And can humour, as comedy, change how we feel, what we think or even what we do? As an integral part of human interaction, humour has been on the minds...
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Article 10 mins
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
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