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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...technology we carry around it was an amazingly comforting and sexy thing to have. With long working hours an online relationship is like fast food, ready when we are, naughty, cheap, very often eaten alone without the exhaustion of social niceties.’ - ‘I have a deep mistrust in the internet, and feel it massively facilitates infidelity. My ex-husband is inherently a...
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What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...technology. Their technique, published in the inaugural edition of Nature Human Behaviour, could lead to a new way of treating patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to...
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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...technology, where material performance comes not only from the properties of the base material, but also from the structure applied to the material. Common examples have existed for centuries, such as corrugated cardboard (patented in 1871) used in packaging materials, foams (such as the memory foam developed in 1960s by NASA) used in mattresses, and lattice structures...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...technological change accelerates, marketers must make increasingly risky bets on the future in order to have a chance of success. Such marketers must understand customers better than customers understand themselves. Satisfying – means providing products and services that meet needs effectively. Marketing has been criticised for creating artificial needs (O’Shaughnessy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...Education Ltd, the company behind one of the leading examples of such websites – TES Connect. While the unit draws its examples and activities from this site its principles are designed so that they may be applied to others. These include international sites, local sites perhaps provided by regional grids for learning, academy chains or teaching school alliances, or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Education programme at the Open University. PAYAM REZAIE And I'm Payam Rezaie. I'm a Reader and the Programme Director for the Science Master's programme at the OU. ERIC ADDAE-KYEREMEH Between us, we have more than 30 years of experience in teaching postgraduate students, producing and leading qualifications across different programmes at the OU and elsewhere. PAYAM...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...education...This free course, Assessment in secondary geography, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing geography in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a geography teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment practice...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’ SDG 10 ‘Reduced inequalities’ SDG 16 ‘Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’ [SDG 4, 10 and 16] [SDG 4, 10 and 16]...Introduction to making political and social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs