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The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...education, and they're locked up over one million of their own citizens, and young black men in America have something like a one in three chance of going to prison some time in their life now, this is where we're heading unless we step back and say that real security isn't gonna be provided by cameras, probably isn't going to be provided by actually more policemen on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you navigate your new organisational culture, build relationships with your work colleagues in a hybrid environment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...educators to the table. That’s a big job. It’s changing the way medical training has been done since its inception, but I believe in them. I know they’re going to see the value of incorporating the gender lens into the current curriculum. It’s about training the future health care providers correctly. And regionally, I’m a co-creator of a division within the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...education framing transgender athletes as having genetic advantages shapes the topic towards male-to-female transitions, and ignores wider social issues and barriers. You will now see what happens when debates are not clearly framed...Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study: 7 What happens to debates with little framing? - A place where debates about doping are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...education … afford to spend on technology, arts, science? Afford to spend on our children and their futures? We could consider these steps: Integrating aging into all aspects of development, Involving the elderly more in major policy decisions, Fundamental reforms in existing pension systems, Making health care affordable to all And we can do this not just because we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...educational/moral content. Might this have something to do with the status of these cloths? Then reflect on the nature of proverbs and what these might suggest to western writers about the tradition of cloth-making in Ghana.)...Textiles in Ghana: 5.1 History of kente - Activity 17 Once you’ve watched the video, make a few notes on what you learnt about the history of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...educator Mushon Zer-Aviv suggests there's a way to make it work...In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of...
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Article 10 mins
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...education, your credit rating, etc, etc. And whenever you engage with a financial institution, a government, a company, you decide which bits of that information you’re going to share. But it’s not the case that the bank has your banking information, or that the government just has your passport information. No, you have access to that and you can use that under...
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Article 10 mins