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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...psychological repercussions for students as these are, for many people, very personal and judgmental pieces of information. Students often need to come to terms with their own results and deal with the repercussions, both good and bad, before they inform others. Security systems support that restricted access for privacy purposes. Yet we need to carefully consider what...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...psychologies, sophisticated enough, perhaps, for them to count as persons. Another example of non-human persons would be intelligent life on other planets. If there are such beings they might very well be persons although it is very unlikely that they would be human beings. This course is concerned with the use of ‘person’ that is not equivalent to ‘human being’....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...psychological. A recognizable cast of character emerge within the Gothic tradition. Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts and demons often appear alongside men and women who typify extremes of good and evil: monks and nuns, violent tyrants and naïve damsels in distress, Byronic heroes and femmes fatales. It might be worth noting that although such characterization...
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Article 45 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...psychology and social issues by looking at how people behave as customers, particularly what they buy and how they use what they buy. Understanding customer behaviour is essential to effective marketing. As a business philosophy, marketing puts customers at the centre of an organisation’s strategy. It sees customer satisfaction and the long-term repeat business that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...psychological safety. We’ve made a change, it’s made a difference, good or bad. And we’re going to carry on doing this or do less of this. So engaging with people about what you’re trying to do, what you hope to achieve, and then share your results. Video 1: Introduction to Week 8 By the end of this week you will be able to: reflect on how you can make a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...psychology/sport-fitness/qatar-2022-must-impart-positive-coaching-legacy-africa-and-the-caribbean-member-associations Fadoju, O (2020) Black lives matter in sport too what is the racially minoritised experience of sport in the UK. Available at: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/sport-fitness/black-lives-matter-sport-too-what-the-racially...
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Article 10 mins
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...psychological state of others. The term ‘gaslighting’ comes from the title of a 1939 play by Patrick Hamilton, in which the heroine is psychologically tortured by her husband. Slowly but surely, the husband chips away at his wife’s sanity by persuading her that the way she sees the world is merely an illusion. What he’s doing, in effect, is waging a war against...
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Video 5 mins
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...forensic’ function. Blame is primarily centred on the failure of someone to assess risk accurately and then to take the steps necessary to prevent a tragic incident. So the concept of risk enables people to look back at tragic events and attribute blame for them to someone else. The media can play a key role in shaping how we all think about risk and the process of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs