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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...concepts still taught in psychology courses and used in research were developed in these places as well. In recent years, psychologists have been working to better understand the full diversity of human processes, emotions and behaviours. To better understand global diversity, researchers have worked to distinguish between what is universal and what is shaped by culture....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...concepts of: Security Conduct Attachment. In the boxes below, write some notes on how the video uses these concepts to analyse the airport. (You may wish to watch the video again.) Security Discussion Surveillance is essential for modern airports. Airports constantly rehearse for emergencies. Passengers are all treated as a potential threat. The passport is central to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...concept of THB and its elements. It will also look at the case examples of THB in the UK. Throughout this course, there will be an opportunity to consider various examples of modern slavery and apply knowledge about human rights law to this contemporary problem. At the end of this course are questions considering possible solutions to the problem of modern slavery. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...concept of the ‘new economy’ is thus a claim that the emergence of new information technology (IT) was responsible for the economic prosperity (e.g. rising incomes, rising employment) experienced by most Western countries in the 1990s. This was the decade in which personal computers (PCs) were diffused throughout the economy, and the decade which saw the commercial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...conception of equality, a conception of equality which took into account differences and disadvantages and sought to overcome them. They used to write briefs to intervene in Supreme Court cases that involved the concept of equality. And they had some initial successes where the court picked up on their arguments. But after a while, they felt that the court had stopped...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...concepts in psychology that relate to character and personality and begun thinking about how people’s behaviour might reflect a combination of more enduring characteristics, and more situational or ‘in the moment’ circumstances. You have also learned about the ways in which we think about the behaviour of other people (as opposed to ourselves) might be subject to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...concepts: What we mean by learning? What counts as worthwhile knowledge? How do these definitions change according to context? The study drew from both practical and theoretical knowledge to respond to the research question. A Professional Doctoral thesis is usually 65,000 words. But 65,000 words were not enough for Gillian whose project made use of visual diagrams to...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...concepts from across the Channel, like the French language, the Doomsday Book, and the duty-free Gauloises multipack. French was de rigueur for all official business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs