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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...et impera – divide and rule. However this covered the idea that it was easier to rule over groups in conflict with each other. How can we cope with tricky problems or situations where there is just too much information? The main technique for dealing with such messy situations is decomposition. We can decompose a problem into smaller and smaller parts or chunks until...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...et al., 2005). In the next activity you can consider how your own responses might relate to these research findings. Activity 7 By looking at your own results from the detecting deception activity you can work out whether or not you a) displayed a truth bias and 2) were better at judging lies or truths. From your results, how many out of the eight did you think were...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...article from The Observer (Box 4). Read this article now and complete the activity that follows it. Activity 44 should take a little less than 10 minutes. Box 4 Open versus closed systems of innovation – an example of self-organisation? There is a saying in the computer business that ‘only the paranoid survive’. The man who has taken it most to heart is Microsoft's...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...et cetera, and moving forward in that way, I gave her the opportunity to become-- hopefully, have the skills to become a lifelong learner. Because we don't stop, do we? Let children be creative. Give them the space to do it. Help to direct them, steer them in a direction. But don't take over. Let the learning come. Video 3 In the final sections of this session, you will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...et al., 2008; note that ‘et al.’ indicates that there were several other authors) Less than 40 years before this woefully optimistic claim, at least 20 million people had died in 1918–19 from influenza, most of them young adults in the UK, USA and Europe. Public health officials in the USA in the 1940s were actively campaigning to halt the spread of tuberculosis...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...articles written by other authors. It’s important that you know of your own purposes and opinions as you read these items. Additionally, you need to be able to recognise the writer's purposes and opinions. You can find more about being a critical reader by visiting the OpenLearn course How to be a critical reader. At the data collection and interpretation stage, it’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...et al., 2011, p. 809). As you read note down answers to the following questions. What do the authors suggest are the core characteristics of relationship-based practice? How do they explain the ‘use of self’ in social work? What do they suggest is one of the biggest challenges you will encounter in professional relationship-based social work practice? Discussion...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...et al, 2018). It can be understood in a minimal sense (activities which relate to ‘personal responsibility’, such as obeying the law and paying taxes), all the way to a maximal sense, focusing on combatting injustice in society, defined by Westheimer and Kahne (2004) as ‘justice orientated’ citizenship. It is clear there are different ‘levels’ of active...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs