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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...profile within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Katharine Reedy, Natasha Huckle and Wendy Mears. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...style or way of living (associated with an individual person, a society, etc.); esp. the characteristic manner in which a person lives (or chooses to live) his or her life. (OED Online, 2009a) Now, without giving it too much thought, take a moment to respond to the question in the activity below. Activity 1 Is being overweight related to a person’s lifestyle? Timing:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...profile: United Kingdom Locator map Country map Climate: temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than half of the days are overcast. Population: 68,138,484 (2023 estimate). Capital: UK: London – population 9,648,110 (2023 estimate); Scotland – Edinburgh; population 553,569 (2023 estimate). COP26 held in Glasgow:...
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Article 5 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
Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...profiles, but they charged for it, at a cost of US$19. This produced US$2m of income for the company in 2014. The hackers have shown that the delete option did not work as advertised and are exposing what they call the “fraud, deceit and stupidity of ALM and their members”. So is there anything wrong in marketing such an illicit service and reaping the financial...
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Article 5 mins
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...profile attempts by the UK government to seek investment. Fourth, global civil society movements might resist such shifts but it is doubtful whether they will achieve significant change from outside formal politics. Having said that, global civil society resistance might succeed to put pressure on political institutions and thereby mitigate the impact of Brexit and Trump...
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Article 15 mins
Centreless grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Centreless grinding

...profiles can be ground and several diameters of workpiece may be finished simultaneously. Endfeed grinding: Tapered work and headed work having a shank length too long for the wheel face, thus precluding infeed grinding. Diameters up to 200 mm, with tolerance of ±0.0025 mm. Internal grinding: The outside diameter must be ground first, since the internal diameter is...
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Article 10 mins
Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...profiles, such as on LinkedIn. The three available on the Masters programme are: [Digital badges available on the Masters programme] The PDP badge: This can be gained at the end of the Masters journey during the multidisciplinary dissertation module E822, mapped against the elements of the Employability Framework [Digital badges available on the Masters programme] Peer...
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Article 5 mins