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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...et al.’s main findings. As you can see, white participants in the study tended to classify positive words more quickly (in milliseconds) if they were preceded by exposure to a white face ‘prime’ than they did when such words were preceded by a black face prime. Similarly, white participants tended to classify negative words more quickly when preceded by a black,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...et al. (2018) indicate that, since 2006, in Britain generic work-based skills such as using a computer and complex problem-solving skills have increased continually whereas literacy and numeracy skills have stagnated. Further, from 1986 to 2017 jobs that required no qualification upon entry moved from 38% to 23% and jobs requiring higher level qualifications moved from...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...article will attempt to move beyond these insightful and depressing statistics, in order to highlight the real lived experiences of Black young people with regards the justice system; particularly their daily interactions with the police and other official agents of authority. Throughout this discussion I will draw on my own ethnographic research, and my experiences as a...
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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...any time of the year. If you’d like to find out about the latest news, public talks and courses relating to Chinese language and culture at The Open University, please visit the Online Confucius Institute. Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to Dr Ligao Wu, Chinese Director of the Onlien Confucius Institute at The Open University, for his contribution to this article....
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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...et cetera, because these days, you get a lot of teenagers being abusive to people with learning difficulties saying ‘special needs, spastic’. And I don't think special needs-- now that is one that really gives me a bee in my bonnet. And I don't really want to be thought of a special just because I have autism. I would like to be special. We want to be ourselves for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...et al. (2000), and Holt and Newton (2004). The new problems may sometimes be made more complex when older laws, drafted before software and the internet existed, get reinterpreted for this new context. The internet in particular has caused the law to become more international – for when crimes are committed on the internet, it is frequently not clear where,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...articles exploring and exhorting innovation and how organisations, especially businesses, and individuals should and could be doing more of it. Innovation is thus considered the lifeblood of organisations: the essential element or imperative that ensures an organisation’s efficiency, competitiveness or uniqueness, and, ultimately, the success of an organisation. This is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...articles can furthermore be male and female. This is something you might know from European languages like French and German, but unlike in these languages, verbs are also gendered. The Arabic alphabet will be new to most learners, and Arabic, unlike many other languages, is written right to left. The letters are not written separately within the word. Each letter can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs