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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...worked with Social Services and moved to education (with some stops in between). This movement means you learn a great deal. Statistics in Social Services covers areas such as how many children are in care. Where are they? Are any regions giving rise to unusually high instances of referrals? How often are community service orders used and do offenders re-offend? My own...
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Article 10 mins
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that currently fail children and their health. The following video explores the concepts covered in this course....Children and young people: food and food marketing:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...social justice as applied to education and reflects on the different purposes of, and value ascribed to, education in different countries and cultures. It discusses different conceptions of 'justice' and the distinction between equity and equality...This free course, Exploring equality and equity in education, considers the complexity of social justice as applied to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired

...social network FourSquare, guidance from Global Position System (GPS) satellites, and navigation through Google Maps to direct users from point to point in the city using turn by turn navigation. A number of other companies have developed software in this area which operates similar to the turn by turn driving directions that GPS offers car users. Transcript Dr Oliver...
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Video 5 mins
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...social economic or political forces at work that enabled you to be ‘socially mobile’? Social mobility looks at the ability or difficulty with which individuals are able, or not, to move up the socio-economic ladder. You will return to the issue of social mobility later this week. Next you will look specifically at how poverty and the lottery of birth can profoundly...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Communication in the healthcare sector
Education & Development

Communication in the healthcare sector

...Social Care...Types of communication in the healthcare sector [Communication in the healthcare sector page images] This is a resource that highlights forms of communication in Health and Social Care. The resource applies to students studying level 3 concepts in the field such as Principles and Contexts or A levels. Open this resouce. Communication (Principles and Contexts...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...working hours an online relationship is like fast food, ready when we are, naughty, cheap, very often eaten alone without the exhaustion of social niceties.’ - ‘I have a deep mistrust in the internet, and feel it massively facilitates infidelity. My ex-husband is inherently a very shy man, but online he is able to act much more confidently and attract the attention of...
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Article 10 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...work explores where the new digital world might take us...Introduction In an (in)famous postscript, Gilles Deleuze traces the emergence of a society of control, whose passive danger is jamming, and whose active danger lies in piracy and viruses. Media jamming and piracy, hacktivism and viruses are all rampant today: the internet is their natural breeding ground, to the...
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Article 15 mins