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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity’ (Aspen Institute). Ture and Hamilton made an important distinction between overt racial discrimination and hate speech perpetrated by individuals that is commonly understood as ‘racism’ and can be easily observed (termed ‘individual racism’), and the pervasive, everyday racism that...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...work in a Bereavement Team in my local hospice. I started my studies with The Open University in 2019. I am now an OU Alumni but have been continuing engaging in research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...working, self-directed learning. Please now consider Activity 1. Activity 1 Evaluate any appropriate lesson plans or teaching materials against the descriptors above. You may wish to reflect on the extent to which some or all these aptitudes are evident or implicit within your lesson planning, delivery and pupil learning outcomes. Read the lesson outline here and look at...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...working in small businesses with limited access to specialists, as well as marketing professionals and those thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional...This free course, Understanding your customers, is a short introduction to understanding customers. The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals, members...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...work of Italian Raffaele Garofalo (criminologia) in 1885 and in the work of French anthropologist Paul Topinard (criminologie) around the same time. Positivist criminology assumes that criminal behaviour has its own distinct set of characteristics. As a result, most criminological research conducted within a positivist paradigm has sought to identify key differences...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...working code is valued above other types of artefact, such as models or other documentation. Extreme Programming (XP) (Beck, 2000) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2001) are two well-known Agile development approaches. Within the same timescale of Agile development, model-driven-development (Selic, 2003) also arose. This approach sees models and not code as the key...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...work demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer...Systems diagramming: 1 How to use this course - This course is a learning resource....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...works in a scientific sense, and that a scientific view is necessary for us to study how performance in sport is linked to performance of the body explain the function of the heart briefly and looks at the importance of healthy hearts in sport, by looking at athletes and efficient hearts understand the topics of blood and blood flow understand the role of oxygen and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs