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An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...articulation of a good death. In their extensive reviews of the academic literature, Erica Borgstrom (2014) and Cottrell and Duggleby (2016) have suggested there are a number of key features that have become synonymous with ideas about a ‘good death’ in contemporary Western societies. These include: awareness and acceptance of dying (viewed as a positive) preparedness...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...les rapports de l’art Vénitiens avec l’art Crétois jusqu’à 1500’, in A. Pertusi (ed.) Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV, vol. 2 (Florence), p. 69–124. Chatzidakis, M. (1974b) ‘Les débuts de l’école Crétoise et la question de l’école dite Italogreque’, in Μνημόσυνον Σ. Αντωνιάδη (Venice), p. 169–211. Chaztidakis, M....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...les Français’. Although we may represent five cows by the number 5, it remains true that if we say or write that there are ‘five cows’ a French person will not recognise this as the same as ‘cinq vaches’. Think again about a photograph of a cow. If we show it to the French person, they will recognise it immediately as ‘une vache’. An English person will...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...Articulate Storyline, Xerte Online Toolkits, Canvas, OpenLearn Create, and more – new tools emerge every year...Take your teaching online: 1.7 Web conferencing platforms - Although not usually purchased by individual teachers, most institutions have invested in at least one learning platform with web conferencing functionality. You may have heard of Adobe Connect and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...articulated national interests, contemporary practices of deliberation, decision-making and practical action on global poverty have increasingly been influenced by the growing number, and increasing influence, of non-state actors. These different institutions have differing interests and visions of ‘what should be done’ and coalesce into a variety of formal and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...articulate an independent view critically analyse and evaluate proposals for new legislation addressing modern slavery. If you are unsure about any of these, go back and reread the relevant section(s) of this course...Modern slavery: References - Allain, J. (2012) The Legal Understanding of Slavery: from the Historical to the Contemporary [Online], Oxford, Oxford...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...articulately and clearly, in the best way for any context they happen to be in. And we’ve seen the difference it makes in terms of their control of language, but also the progress they’re making in subjects; because now they control the language, they control the knowledge and they present that in the right way in different situations. So we’ve seen the progress...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney’, British Journal of Criminology. Tajfel, H. (ed.) (1978) Differentiation between Social Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations, London, Academic Press. Tajfel, H., and Turner, J. (1979) ‘An integrative theory of intergroup conflict’, in Austin, W. G. and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs