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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...religion was Muslim after his father. He changed to Christianity later on. At 10 he moved back to Hawaii and was raised by his white grandmother, who paid for him to be privately educated. He went to Columbia University, then Harvard Law School. After college he became a civil-rights lawyer. He also married and became father to two children. Comment My Comment So now you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...religion, nationality, socio-economic status or disability. You’ll explore diversity in the workplace, and its potential impact on communication, in Week 7...Week 2: Communication skills: 2.5 Providing feedback - In order to reduce the impact of your own assumptions and attitudes, it is important to provide the listener with feedback. It is a way of demonstrating that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...La Voie Du Mont, c.1920, advertising poster, 106 × 76 cm. The Roman Forum was another important site for Grand Tourists, and remains so today. In what follows, you’ll consider what writers actually do (their creative practices or processes, if you will), and observe one example of how a writer might engage with the ideas that lay behind the Grand Tour by connecting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...Laing, S. and Warr, C. (2016) ‘The great British medalists project: a review of current knowledge on the development of the world’s best sporting talent’. Sports medicine, 46(8), pp. 1041–1058. Sarkar, M. and Fletcher, D. (2013) ‘Psychological resilience: A review and critique of definitions, concepts, and theory’, European Psychologist, 18(1), pp. 12–23....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics you may have noted in the last activity, you have many identities and you are part of many communities. Why does this matter in the workplace? Because each identity provides a person with a relative level of privilege over, or disadvantage to, any other person – this means every person has a specific level of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...religion, it may surprise you that when we typed in ‘religion is’ (February, 2019), the completions offered by Google were: ‘poison, islam, bad, dying, the root of all evil, brainwashing, mass delusion, a disease, control’. Google relies on users of the service for reporting predictions that are ‘inappropriate’. Opacity of algorithms You have seen that data...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...religion, your job, your background, your home and lots of other things. The diagram below shows some of the answers that one of the course authors came up with. [Described image] Figure 5 ‘Who am I?’ diagram Type your response to the question ‘Who am I?’ in the box below. Discussion All these elements make up our identity, and looking at all these different...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...religion, language, abilities or any other status. The Convention must be seen as a whole: all the rights are linked and no one right is more important than another. The right to relax and play (Article 31), for example, and the right to freedom of expression (Article 13) have equal importance as the right to be safe from violence (Article 19) and the right to education...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs