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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...think about taking other courses. ['Personal branding for career success' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...thinking about what resilience means to you, how you picture it, and considering your own definition, image or metaphor for resilience. Note down your thoughts in the box below or in the interactive toolkit. As mentioned in the Introduction and guidance, there are places for you to make notes in the ‘Activities’ section of the toolkit. To open the toolkit, click this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in jury decision-making lie, and, if possible, to overcome these shortcomings. We know from both everyday decision making and...
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Article 5 mins
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons, something almost alien. The author L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ But in truth, history is all around us. It is today, because without the recording of actions of people now, there would be nothing to study in the future. The way we...
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Article 5 mins
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...systemic marginalisations. Planning how the data collected is going to be critically interrogated to provide EDI-sensitive answers to the research questions is an integral part of the methodological approach of the research design and needs to be congruent with the aims of the research and the methods of data gathering – whether quantitative or qualitative. Doing this...
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Article 15 mins
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Thinking about the types of flooding described in Figure 2, would you consider some types to be more or less problematic than others? Are there any types of flooding that might be beneficial? Answer All types of flooding may be problematic, depending on context. There may be loss of life, damage to property, impact on infrastructure, such as roads and rail systems,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...think being creative means? This free course, Creativity, community and ICT, engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for creativity and collaborative working. The course would be of interest to teachers, parents and carers, and can be studied on an individual basis or as part of a school-based...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
'As rich as Croesus'
History & The Arts

'As rich as Croesus'

...Think about these four questions as you read the well-respected commentary on Croesus' life on the Livius.org website 1. Why does Solon not count Croesus as the "happiest" man of all? Who does he choose for this accolade instead, and why? 2. Why do you think, in Herodotus's view, Croesus fails in his pre-emptive strike against the Persians? Is he right to blame Apollo and...
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Activity 5 mins