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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...social, political, economic, technological, cultural, etc. – to emerging socio-technical networks such as the Internet, web and social media vis-à-vis reproduction of world systemic power-relations the persistent yet masked illiberalism of Western conceptions of liberal political and economic order under colonial modernity. Underlying this project is a concern to...
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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Social Care 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology 4.2.4 Science 4.2.5 Social Sciences Feel free to focus only the subject areas you are interested in studying, or are studying...Developing good academic practice: 4.2.1 Arts - You have been advised that there is no need to provide a reference for a piece of factual information that is deemed to be common knowledge....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...social order. (Douglad Creed and Miles, 1996, p. 17) From these definitions of trust we can see a number of different issues emerge. Each definition of trust above involves two specific parties: a trusting party (trustor) and a party to be trusted (trustee). Also, there are two related concepts raised in the definitions. These are the notions of ‘risk’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the information and communication technologies that drive our networked world and how they now permeate our everyday lives...We now live in a global village where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...social interactions. Dyslexia This is a difference in learning which impacts how someone reads, writes and/or spells. Neurodiversity This term describes differences in neurological development which we see across a whole population of people, often viewed as natural variation. Neurodivergent This term describes an individual whose neurodevelopment is not considered...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...socially desirable ways’. However – and this is the decisive point that Strawson gives to the pessimist – ‘this is not a sufficient basis, it is not even the right sort of basis, for these practices as we understand them’ (II:3). The optimist, faced with this point, has nothing left to say. The pessimist, to get the basis for blame, etc. that they want, must...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...social consciousness, and are each sensible of being a centre, with a metropolitan destiny; but the strange thing about Liverpool and the like English towns is that they are without any social consciousness. Their meek millions are socially unborn; they can come into the world only in London, and in their prenatal obscurity they remain folded in a dreamless silence, while...
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Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...Social World’ where Butcher and Morris (2015) explore the role of power in defining place, mobility and migration and the cultural significance of the nation as home. This is further explored in Conway and Staples's (2015) examination of symbols of nationalism and the creation of ‘Homelands’. Butcher, M and Morris, A (2015) ‘Mapping Home’ in Murji, K (ed)...
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