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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...social movement gaining widespread popular support. A Facebook live video of the 6th of June Corbyn election event in Birmingham featuring the comic actor Steve Coogan and the dance act Clean Bandit was watched an astonishing 2.3 million times by the time polls closed. The aggressive use of feel-good videos, policy explainers, and shareable media helped drive forward the...
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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...works around the world. You will explore psychological processes, behaviours and practice across diverse cultures and societies. By the end of this course, you will have expanded your knowledge and understanding of psychology, and how it operates across the globe. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D110 Exploring psychological...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...work by social scientists in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries. These men and women set out to observe life in Britain and, as part of this, to interview men, women and children about their daily habits. Henry Mayhew’s famous study of the working classes of London, London Labour and the London Poor, compiled during the 1840s and 1850s, reveals much about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...work through the activities you will be encouraged to record your thoughts on an idea, an issue or a reading, and how it relates to your practice. Hopefully you will have opportunities to discuss your ideas with colleagues. We therefore suggest that you use a notebook – either physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...social scientist: Transcript Roisin Kelly: Hello Bill. I just want to ask why are murals of interest to you as a social scientist? What made you want to study them? Bill Rolston: If it doesn’t sound too much of a cliché, because they’re there is the first answer. Let me explain that. In 1981, there was quite literally an explosion of murals in Belfast and other parts...
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...social media, websites, red button, you name it. And even more proud of the fact that it’s actually a hit. We’re not doing it just because it’s good for us, in a Reithian, BBC kind of way, it’s actually popular, so I’m exceptionally proud of that. My Oman show… I’ve done other things in the past where working as an independent producer, where you own the...
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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...work or outside. What sources of evidence did you draw on in making that decision? Are these among the four sources of ‘best available’ evidence identified? Did you critically appraise the evidence in the way described above? If you did, how did you go about this? If not, what is your judgement now of the quality of the evidence you used? Discussion As humans we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?

...social influence at play. Sure, pumpkin spice is good, but so are chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, apple cinnamon and caramel. But when your Instagram feed is filled with friends wielding their first pumpkin spice lattes of the season, or when everyone in your 2pm coffee break group decides to go for one, you’re probably more likely to get one, too. Social conformity is...
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