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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...introduction of an eggplant-flavoured condom to their range as part of a spoof publicity stunt in reaction to the Unicode Consortium (the organisation who oversee all thing emoji) turning down their proposal for a condom emoji. And then there’s the company Eggplant Mail, which will anonymously send an actual aubergine, inscribed with a message of your choice, through...
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Article 20 mins
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...introductions to alternative approaches to wellbeing which challenge the taken for granted, causal links between size and ill health. You can learn more about Lucy Aphramor’s ‘Well Now’ approach (offering workshops for both clients and wellbeing practitioners) on her website. There is a Health at Every Size UK website with links to practitioners working from the...
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Article 10 mins
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...introduction to Bayesian thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods...
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Article 5 mins
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...Introduction - Why use literature reviews in health and social care? is a free course which introduces and explains how literature reviews can support evidence-based practice in health and social care. A literature review can offer a systematic way in which to sift through information to produce relevant existing knowledge and discern knowledge gaps. This short course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...Introduction - The profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes brought about by computing and information technology (IT) will affect every one of us. In this course we talk about digital technologies in relation to computing and IT. A fundamental idea is that a digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...Introduction - We all make decisions in everyday life, both as individuals and in groups. These range from simple – for example, choosing what to eat, which route to take to work, which products to buy in the shop – to complex decisions about changing jobs, moving house, choosing schools and participating as a member of a local community in planning decisions and...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...Introduction - Welcome to this free course on formal court processes and social rupture and repair. This course will introduce you to alternative ways of thinking about social problems and the formal means that many western societies use to resolve them. The course explores ideas from the subject area of criminology and will contrast adversarial and problem-solving courts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Introduction - Session 1 illustrated that growing the economy as a policy objective we should continue pursuing is a contested question within the discipline of economics. Similarly, the questions of how an economy is organised and how income is distributed within an economy are debated concerns within economics. [Described image] Figure 1: Economists of different schools...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs