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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. If you'd like to learn more about badges, you will find more information on the following websites:...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...social animals, because I think that’s what a lot of our behaviours are derived from, and a lot of our feelings. Everyday perspectives: animal minds Reflecting on your answers to Activity 1, and the answers given by the people in the video clip you just watched, you will have probably noticed that people are very willing to attribute human-like mental attributes (such...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...social science requires the collection of data in order to understand a phenomenon. This can be done in a number of ways, and will depend on the state of existing knowledge of the topic area. The researcher can: Explore a little known issue. The researcher has an idea or has observed something and seeks to understand more about it (exploratory research). Connect ideas to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...social security benefits related to unemployment, illness and retirement. It was first introduced in 1911 and gradually expanded, especially in the 1940s with the launch of the National Health Service and the expansion to state benefit schemes. [The image is the top of a letter from HMRC concerning National Insurance. The letter is lying the keyboard of a computer.]...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...social status for their ‘profession’ by conforming as closely as possible to the existing rhetoric of painted portraiture. Photographers incorporated existing ideas about idealization, characterization and sexual stereotyping into their own professional rhetoric. They also attempted to represent themselves as able to exercise total control over the sitter in order to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...social media that make the I am Bradley Manning campaign distinct. For one, few of these campaigns involve a metaphor of one individual being another particular individual. The two exceptions noted above include the original “I am” metaphor of “We are all Khaled Said” and the later metaphor of “I am Trayvon Martin.” In the case of Khaled Said, the metaphor is...
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Article 5 mins
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...social value. Literacy is a huge problem in this country and therefore we need more stories. I think the way we tell our British story – who we are as a people – comes through our crime novels and our literature, and I think it’s been a huge democratisation of publishing in the last ten years, which has meant that the snobbery has gone a bit – what we should read...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...social support, employment opportunities, pensions, and the prospect of self-improvement. It bore another message as well. These men insisted on co-operation and brotherly love. They were worthy citizens and this demonstration of unity and strength demanded that they be treated as such. This banner was a protest against treating working men badly or setting men against...
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Video 5 mins