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Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...analysis of your sport or activity will indicate how important speed and power are to you. There is a wide range of sports and activities in which speed and power are important – in some sports such as sprinting or power-lifting, achieving speed and power are the main objectives, whereas in other sports such as rugby or football they are just one aspect of the sport....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...data breaches. In recent months, government agencies and experts (including myself) have recommended improvements to the electronic security of our hodgepodge collection of voting systems. Among our suggestions are that states ensure their voting systems are modernized, properly updated, tested and secured from both physical and network-based tampering. States must...
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Article 5 mins
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...data associated with it, name, URL, criteria, issuer, date and recipient]Representation of the digital nature of open badges. Source: Bryan Mathers.Digital badges are digital because, unlike a PDF or paper certificate, achievements are baked into the badge and are verifiable to the earner and issuer. That we now use digital badges in higher education, signifies that not...
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Article 5 mins
Skills for study
Education & Development

Skills for study

...data Digital and online skills If you're already an OU student, the Open University Library hosts Being Digital - a resource with activities to develop your skills for online life - whether for study, work or home. You can also find information on computing skills for studying online with the OU available from StudentHome. Already registered as an OU student? Don't forget...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...analysis. The material includes a short video excerpt in which the American criminologist Jonathan Simon (University of California, Berkeley) discusses the problem of crime in the US and the way the ‘War on Crime’ can be viewed as a strategy of governance, rather than a straightforward, practical policy response. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...analysis holds that the most salient aspect of an image is what its maker intended to communicate: the participants tell me what is in the picture and we discuss its meaning from there. In order to make these images accessible to wider audiences a website was created on which we could exhibit the collected material. The website‘s largest asset is that it offers a...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...analysis of citizenship, in an effort to advance a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of today’s politics. To start with, citizenship is better understood as a practice or an act, rather than a status. Studying citizenship is about studying the processes ‘through which actors constitute themselves (and others) as subjects of rights’ (Isin, 2009:371). In...
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Article 5 mins
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...analysis on the basis it was too ‘gloomy’. The high pace of the negotiation process - with less than 2 years of negotiation time to thrash out the issues - and with the polarisation of issues taking place via the group pressures operating within the UK government, are the ideal conditions for making decision-making biases more likely. The implications for the process...
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Article 5 mins