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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: © Birmingham Post and Mail Saward, M., ‘Is This Democracy?’ 2003, Polity Press, http://www.polity.co.uk. Used with permission; Saward, M. ‘Reinventing Democracy’, 2003, Polity Press,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...Writing in the 1950s, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959, pp. 7–10) drew a distinction between ‘personal troubles’ and ‘public issues’. He suggested that although there were many ‘troubles’ or ‘problems’ that individuals experienced in their lives, not all of these emerged as ‘public issues’ which commanded public interest and attention...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: Cara-Foto; Shutterstock.com Figure 2: Alex Pantling / Staff;...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Artyom_Anikeev / iStockphoto.com Activity 1: Skydiving: Pixabay;...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...writing on the website ‘Shine a Light’ highlights a concern about the programme failing to inform listeners that, to quote her: G4S, Serco and Sodexo all donate to Reform, which the BBC tells us is a ‘centre right think tank’ and which describes itself as an ‘independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...writing of this course: Ed Cope (The Football Association), Steve McQuaid (ActionProvoked), Andy Bradshaw (UK Coaching), Jay Roper (UK Sport), staff and students at the University of Chichester, and Stuart Armstrong, Lucy Moore and Sion Kitson (Sport England). Images Figure 1: Dusit; Shutterstock.com Figure 2: faithie; Shutterstock.com Figure 4: subin pumsom;...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Videos: © Cisco Systems http://www.cisco.com/ https://creativecommons.org/...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...write down your own definition of this from your own perspective. Discussion Different people will have different definitions that reflect the wider context of digital health and social care. Your definition might have come from your own experience as an individual consumer of health care or from your work. Definitions will probably have included the internet, mobile or...