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Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...feedback: ‘You’ve been giving us a lot of implementation details rather than offering an overview of project goals. Please refocus your presentation to be in line with the guidelines we set earlier.’ If the over-talker shows no sign of self-control, stop him or her and check with the rest of the group: ‘I’m going to stop you and check with the rest of the group...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...class of nebulae provided a useful distinction between unresolved (point-like) and resolved (extended) structures. Figure 8 shows some hand-drawn sketches of nebulae dating to the early nineteenth century. It is apparent that they do not all show the same structure: there are various different types of fuzzy, extended – and in some cases a little peculiar – objects...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Class sketch’ (see Figure 10 overpage), if a court looks down on other courts, it is more influential than a court that looks up to other courts...Judicial decision making: 8.2 The judicial hierarchy - [Described image] Figure 10 The ‘Class sketch’ featuring Ronnie Corbett as working class, Ronnie Barker as middle class, and John Cleese as upper class. In the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...classes they’re going to study and to review, and go back over things of classes they had been to. They’ve also found that lots of students at other universities do the same. Oh, you know, I’ve got this class on quantum mechanics. Oh, we’re just going to see what the MIT stuff on quantum mechanics is like. They’re starting to make those comparisons. Or they’re...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...feedback mechanism between the stages of the Autodesk model. Another difference is the review process at the end of each of Autodesk's stages. However, in reality, the role of the review processes was simply to ascertain the completion of each set of documents and did not consider whether their content confirmed that the work undertaken during the stage had been...
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Getting started – working in a voluntary organisation: Introduction - Welcome to the first week of Working in the voluntary sector. This course explores the roles and activities...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...class exam being taken by twenty undergraduate students. Phase two will take place a week later in a scheduled seminar, and consist of asking the same students, one after another, to tell the group as a whole whom they had voted for. Think about the three ethics principles and how you might expect a psychological study to meet each one, and then decide whether you think...
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...de-stigmatise the menopause, raise awareness of its impact and remove the embarrassment often experienced when people talk about it (Newson, 2019)...Session 1: What are we are talking about?: 5 Factors affecting the severity of the menopause - On average the menopause starts aged 51; however, the perimenopause that is described as ‘the change before the change’,...