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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...de-risking, to avoiding a ‘sunk cost fallacy,’ to locking in progress and value early and often. There are three key measures: Lead Time is the time from starting work on an item of value to getting it into the hands of a customer. Throughput is the count of items of value delivered into the hands of a customer in a time period. As lead time comes down, throughput...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...de Gaulle in France, who was also faced with the challenge of African nationalism, used a very different metaphor, and that’s because he believed that African nationalism could be stopped. And he used the metaphor of the insurgents as vermin. And so what do we do with vermin? We exterminate vermin. Another really powerful rhetorical device is the technique of contrast...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...de Klerk cancelled the country’s nuclear weapons programme. South Africa became the first – and to date the only – country to have developed its own nuclear weapons and then to unilaterally dismantle them. Since then, successive South African governments have been active in supporting nuclear disarmament, playing a key role in establishing the African Nuclear...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...variable nature of settings and the range of individuals involved means there is no single route to successful teamwork. Certain constraints may prevent the practice reflecting the values and views of team members. Developing a team culture with a comfortable climate of asking questions, checking understandings, reflection and evaluation is of paramount importance in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...variables and influence that corresponding process. And because of that, many things can happen. Video 1: What does development mean in the twenty-first century? Discussion Respondents in Video 1 see development as a process, a process that seeks to change problem situations for the better. A number commented that the conceptualisation of how such change should happen and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...de Vil, villains are often the most thrilling aspect of a story and can be more exciting than the hero. It is argued that ‘villainy is integral in narratives that reflect the innermost fears of the human psyche and is often a significant part of the construction of loss whether it is loss of innocence, loss of loved ones, loss of power, or loss of self and/or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...class and wants to give each student one marker, how many packs of markers should she buy? Answer The population rounds to 6 000 000 (six million). This is because 6 439 800 is nearer to 6 million than 7 million. 6 987 rounded to the nearest 1 000 is 7 000. If each ticket costs £6, the approximate total amount of money collected is: £6 × 7 000 = £42 000 412 to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs