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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...attention is elsewhere (e.g. texting or fiddling with things) [Described image] (d) Someone who won’t turn around to look at you while you are talking [Described image] (e) Trying to understand someone with no verbal communication [Described image] (f) People rolling their eyes or sighing/tutting when you ask them for something, even though they do what you ask Figure 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...attention to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons testing, as nuclear fallout affected those living in the regions destined to be test grounds, with indigenous communities being particularly affected. This led to what is sometimes known as the first wave of anti-nuclear activism, as citizens in the Pacific and around the world mobilised against nuclear weapons testing....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...attention to issues of software quality, in terms of both product (what is built) and process (how we build it)...This free course, Approaches to software development, presents an engineering approach to the development of software systems – a software engineering approach. The course pays particular attention to issues of software quality, in terms of both product...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...attention on those organisations that are aware of and focused (at least in part) on their environmental connections and responsibilities at some level. This could include organisations that directly engage in environmental management as part of their organisational remit, organisations that are already engaging in innovation to improve environmental management...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...attention towards two fundamental features of innovation: that a new idea or invention is not by itself enough, and that it needs to be part of a wider process that realises value. Figure 1 below illustrates this process as a series of activities progressing from ‘idea generation’ (loosely, invention) through to marketing and adoption in the market place...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...attention to the rights of children. So in 1989, governments adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, popularly known as CRC. This convention guides governments and all citizens young and old on what the human rights mean for children and what should be done so that children can enjoy these rights. By signing the convention on the rights of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...attentive Employees will feel more valued Employees will be more invested in work Problems are resolved faster Customers experience better service Organizations are more nimble. (Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group, 2015) So how can an organisation drive greater empowerment? Bowditch and Buono (2005, p. 222) suggest four key approaches: Employees must have information on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...attention to regulations and form-filling. One particularly important example in a psychology PhD will be applications for ethical approval. Even if you become a self-funded student, your project is likely to involve costs (for instance, for equipment and expenses) that require you to apply for institutional funding and manage financial records and budgets. And as your...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs