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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...perception of green issues as a green company as we are, I’m sure that people think that before we arrive that we are the traditional hippy with joss sticks and dream catchers, etc., with no real grasp on the reality of the world, which is not true, hopefully, as you can see… which is not true. So there is a perception of green issues of just being… kind of a...
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Video 30 mins
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...perception of their own influence and importance within the project. The project manager can influence effective teamwork by being conscious of levels of awareness and of the ways that team members perceive their position and, where necessary, bolster their perceptions or provide missing information...Managing virtual project teams: 2.2 Social presence and information...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...perception of his mother's likely condition, at that time and with all those young and presumably sickly children. (I am not suggesting that any reader would think about all this on a first reading, by the way.) This distancing effect, pulling us back to the adult narrator's perspective, and then further, to our own reading of that narrator's views, is reinforced by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...perceptions of their ‘race’. In addition to this introduction the course is divided into 5 sessions. The sessions cover the following examples: Black self-liberated revolutionaries in Haiti winning independence from France in 1804 the controversial practice of exhibiting humans in ‘zoos’ in Europe in the late nineteenth century how a racist incident on a train in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...perceptions and emotions as you participated in those lessons? Does any specific classroom incident come to mind? Your experiences of learning mathematics that happened outside the classroom. Your observation of children learning mathematics – try to recall a moment when you were aware of a particular learner and their engagement, or lack of engagement, with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...perceptions can change over time. It can be very helpful, as already noted, to develop an awareness of the issues that make you stressed, and in Activity 2 you will practise reviewing and auditing these issues. There are two different ways of doing this. The first is by completing standardised questionnaires or checklists which list different elements that have caused...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...perceptions and outcomes of population movements into western democracies. Mainstream media discourses rely on: broad portrayals which stereotype; the use of aggregated statistics, and, often, the de-personalizing of complex issues. This results in overt generalisations, reductionism, a lack of depth, and more recently, a global populist political backlash. [The Audio...
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Article 15 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...perceptions of virginity The Obscure History of the 'Virgin's Disease' that could be Cured with Sex. 5: Alcohol is responsible for 8,000 deaths in the UK every year Transcript Policies to control drugs and alcohol are decided by politicians not scientists. This has lead to "disastrous results" says Professor David Nutt. This explores his study into drugs: "Professor Nutt...
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