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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...sustainability by designing the intervention to work with the context, not in spite of it. The appreciation of the context has also influenced the kinds of interventions that are designed and undertaken. Development actors have long sought to influence official policy and practice through advocacy and campaigning work. Now there are efforts to move away from service...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...sustainable, easily shared world. Fewer battles would occur over food and other resources (because we would not need them) and inequalities would evaporate. Their more advanced brains would make cyborgs more empathetic towards others, not less. This has its detractors. Halberstam worries that, like other scientific and medical advances that are available only to a wealthy...
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Article 10 mins
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...sustained weight loss. These are expensive failures. This inability to curb the extraordinary prevalence of obesity costs the United States more than $147 billion in healthcare, as well as $4.3 billion in job absenteeism and yet more in lost productivity. At the heart of this issue is a single unit of measurement – the calorie – and some seemingly straightforward...
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Video 5 mins
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...sustainable organisations. You will examine the changes in organisational dynamics, which have led to a focus on trust within modern economies, and investigate the specific consequences of a lack of trust within organisations. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Business and Management...Developing high trust work relationships: Learning outcomes -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...sustain its oil supply and also could export a lot, mainly to Japan and to some other countries. But since the middle of the 1990s, China has got short of oil and it has to import, rely on imports fundamentally to ensure its oil demand. Therefore, its oil companies initially were encouraged to go internationally to find more resources for the country but later on actually...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...sustainable’, ‘low-cost’, ‘modern’ and ‘natural’. Of course, your final vocabulary does not have to coincide with anyone else's, and the equation with ‘good’ or ‘bad’ might be different for different people. Words like ‘progress’, ‘modern’ or ‘profit’ might be used to indicate unalloyed ‘good’ for some while raising hackles in others....
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...Sustained attention – the ability to continuously perform a task over a prolonged period without decline in performance. Response precision – temporal and/or spatial precision in behavioural responses to stimuli. Temporal information processing – the ability to accurately recognise or reproduce time intervals. To cover the entire brain basis of all of these domains...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...sustainable energy policies globally. Social and cultural issues: These issues involve cultural exchanges, identity conflicts, and social norms. IR examines how globalisation impacts local cultures, religious identities and migration patterns. Social issues often overlap with political issues, as seen, for example, in debates over human rights or refugee protection....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs