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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...concepts, evidence and theories taking a distanced, critical stance towards subject matter, assumptions and explanations tackling issues systematically, logically, and effectively examining the adequacy of evidence and checking alternative interpretations of it demonstrating a thorough understanding of complex, abstract concepts within the discipline writing clearly and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘motivation’, ‘leadership’, ‘performance’ result from human categorisation of the world and that their ‘meaning’ can change depending on the circumstances. For example, performance can mean different things to different people. For one it may refer to a hard measure such as levels of sales. For another it may include good...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...concept of internet safety and the possible advantages and disadvantages the internet offers in terms of health and social care. It will also explore the ethical and professional issues associated with online social networks when working in health and social care settings...The focus of this free course, Social media and networks in health and social care, will be on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...concepts is a form of digital learning. Digital technologies are evolving very rapidly; children born in 1990 in many countries had no internet connection, used tapes to listen to music, and had no cell or mobile phones. More than 25 years later, the technology landscape has changed dramatically; children are now born in a society where digital technologies are used for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...concept’...An introduction to crime and criminology: 2.1 Graffiti: crime or free expression? - Graffiti can take many different forms. It can include stencil art, freestyle artistic expression, and tag graffiti (a graffiti writer’s personalised signature). It may be commissioned and legally painted, such as murals, or it may be sprayed illegally on public or private...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...concept to define. Thinking about health can illuminate the relationship between the modern world and the ancient Mediterranean worlds, while looking at ideas from another culture can help us rethink our own assumptions about health. Do we look back to the Greeks and Romans as supreme models of health, due to a simple diet, free from preservatives? Or do we focus on our...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...concepts they’re referring to in any meaningful sense at all. Instead, each letter is related to a sound (or set of sounds), which combine together with other letters to create the sound of a w-o-r-d. So where do emojis fit into this picture of developing communications technologies? As with all other writing systems, they have developed along with technology as human...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...concept is a bit like McDonald’s declaring itself a “community of hamburger eaters.” There is nothing in particular that ties Facebook users together, aside from a basic, unremarkable pleasure that human beings take in connecting with one another. And Facebook does not have terms of use—it has “Community Standards,” a term that gives the impression that we all...
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