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Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...psychologically is it creates an equation. Time is scarce, so what do we do? Well -- well, we speed up, don't we? We try and do more and more with less and less time. We turn every moment of every day into a race to the finish line -- a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach, but a finish line nonetheless. And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...psychology of risk - Fear and guilt appeals are often premised on notions of risk: that by communicating the risk involved in specific behaviours, the target audience will engage with the message (Eagle et al., 2020). Exploring this theme in more detail, Vos et al. (2017), in a study of gamblers in Australia, found that fear, in particular, evokes threats such as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...psychology of the villain, however. Games are symbolic, rather, of the genre’s consistent determination to reach out to the potential reader and to create a communitarian response that drives mass readership. In short, the reader is invited not just to read the text but to share in the deductive process of identifying clues and solving the puzzle of the crime. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...Psychology Review, vol. 15, pp. 327–58. Taylor, A. (2008) ‘Developing understanding about learning to teach in a university-schools partnership in England’, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 1. Timoštšuk, I. and Ugaste, A. (2012) ‘The role of emotions in student teachers’ professional identity’, European Journal of Teacher Education, vol....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...psychologically defenceless against it, because being cool was being high. (O’Brien, 2012, p. 89)...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 10 Joplin’s lasting reputation - For Joplin – as for many others, both famous and unknown – heroin addiction proved to be fatal. She died of an overdose on 4 October 1970, 16 days after Hendrix who choked to death on his own...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...Psychology, 29(1), pp. 1–35. McGrath, R.G. (2011) ‘Failing by Design’, Harvard Business Review, 89(4), pp. 76–83. Miller, P. and Wedell-Wedellsborg, T. (2013) Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life.Boston: Harvard Business Review Press. Molnar, A., Whelan, C., and Boyle, P.J. (2019) ‘Securing the Brisbane 2014 G20 in the Wake of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...psychology. Being a mum, she has had the opportunity to observe her own child and their interactions with technologies that informed the rationale for this course...Children’s experiences with digital technologies: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how digital technologies have been used by children over the years engage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Psychology at the University of Southampton published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Forensic Science International, in which they presented some fingerprints to experts and asked them to confirm that they did not match a set of reference fingerprints. What the experts were not told was that the prints they were given had previously been positively identified as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs