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All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. How to get a badge Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read all sessions of the course score 50% or more in the end-of-course badge quiz in Session 3. In the end-of-course quiz, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type...
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...social and collective experiences and events, such as the birth of a new family member or a major dispute that happened between colleagues at work. Some findings suggest that people from China tend to have more autobiographical memories for historical events and experiences, such as a political event or a natural disaster than people from the US (Conway et al., 2005)....
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...social groups, just as primates do. In doing so, they display types of social behaviour, such as grooming and play between adults and juveniles, that are important 'bonding' interactions of primates. Kinkajous have distinctive types of scent glands, located on their chin, throat and chest. Our understanding of what role these secretions play in communication in kinkajou...
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...social and cultural contexts. The growing emphasis on leadership is based on the premise that effective leadership will mean improved outcomes for children’s care, learning and development. We take the view that leadership is the concern of all practitioners and not the exclusive domain of one individual, the designated leader. Stacey (2009) notes that while good...
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...social media posts, films and dramas with parents, carers and siblings. As a governor you may encounter a situation where a parent may want to take this further and extend their involvement by formally becoming ‘home educators’. This may be done because the parents or carers feel that their child is unhappy in a formal setting. They believe their child can thrive when...
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...social life. Because talking to other people is part of everyday life, you may feel that you naturally possess these skills. In this course you will discover that a little psychological knowledge about interactions will help you to be able to plan and prepare for conversations in a way that will enable you to become an even more skilled communicator. The model you will...
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...social skills her need for contact and her use of her senses the things the Family members noticed Mia doing that might make them want to be with her, and to follow her lead in some way. You will have come across some of these in the reading you did for Activity 2. ‘Emotions’ refers to Mia's ability to feel happiness, sadness, anger, etc. ‘Communication and social...
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...social media networks. Ask them about their views of science now, as well as when they were learning it at school. What has led to their views? What are the most common attitudes and feelings people have about science? What has led to these views and attitudes? Not all views about science are positive. How science is portrayed in schools, the media and elsewhere...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs