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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...psychology of optimal experience, (ed), New York, Harper & Row. Hart, J., Iacovides, I., Adams, A., Oliveira, M., & Magroudi, M. (2017) Understanding Engagement within the Context of a Safety Critical Game, in The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHIPLAY 2017), 15-18 Oct 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 50734/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...psychological tests or fixed-choice questionnaires may be employed to measure abilities or attitudes across a sample of people. However, it is worth pointing out that some of the sorts of data used by qualitative researchers, such as written documents and transcripts of audio or video recordings, can be subjected to quantitative analysis after being collected. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...psychologically distant.’ Most important, she concludes, ‘the austerity of mood, as of image, associates his works with the Byzantine tradition’, in effect rendering them ‘the Western equivalent of the icons of the East’. 30 Figure 7 Giovanni Bellini, Madonna Greca, c.1470, panel, 82 × 62 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Used with the permission of the Ministero...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...psychology, particularly those focused on human identity. Its key claims and concepts include the following. The International environment is a social system, meaning that states and other actors interact like individuals in society, shaping their identities, interests, and perceptions of others through these interactions. Furthermore, there are shared understandings and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. (Douglas Busch) (Examples sourced from Greig 2019 (1–3) and Greig 2017 (4)) Discussion The humour in the first joke lies in adapting the idiom it’s notrocket science (meaning ‘this should be an easy task’) to a restaurant context where a salad including the leafy green vegetable rocket might be served. There...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...psychological consequences. But in themselves, contracts, promises, rights, duties and responsibilities cannot be said to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ without further knowledge of their demands and context. To say that somebody has broken a contract or broken a promise does not necessarily give them a black mark; you have to know what they promised...Introducing Ethics in...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...Psychology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3–11 [Online]. Available at http://doi.org/10.1080/13594329608414834 (Accessed 12 September 2014). Whisnant, R. (2013) ‘Wanted: truly innovative sustainable business models’, The Guardian, 2 September [Online]. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/innovative-sustainable-business-models (Accessed 3 July 2018)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...psychological viewpoint, asking people to reduce their carbon footprint to help tackle climate change is a very difficult message to get across, as it may require immediate sacrifices in order to address an invisible long-term problem. This is despite storms, floods, heatwaves and other damaging weather events now becoming increasingly frequent and obvious. As these...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs