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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...multiple points in one post. Techniques that work face-to-face often do not work online (e.g. humour or irony), so how you phrase your response is very important. Let’s explore issues that may arise around participation, asking difficult questions, dealing with different views and approaches, and organising and managing discussion threads on forums...Session 6: Using...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...multiple witnesses when they - when they saw the event we found that the vast majority, that is 86 per cent, reported they talked to other witnesses about the event. We asked them what they talked about and the number one reason they talked about the event with one another was they're providing information. So they're actually talking about details of the event with one...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...multiple languages as described in the OpenLearn article Pineapples and Pashto where it is used with speakers of Dari and Pashto. Main activity The key focus of the session. The adult should take a facilitating role here – try not to lead the session! This will depend on what the participants want to develop as a group. Reflect and review A group reflection, sharing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...multiple databases simultaneously to generate a results list. This may well give you access to materials that are not freely available by other means; plus, if you have an account with a university library, you can usually link it to your Google Scholar account, of which more shortly. You will now take a look at different online search techniques...Session 5: Skills and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...multiple languages, switching target translations quickly and easily. Translations are available between English and Scottish Gaelic. There are a number of software products available for teaching grammar and vocabulary, for both DOS and Macs. There are spell-checkers available, for example, An Dearbhair, which was developed originally for Microsoft Word 2003 and can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...multiple ethnicities and ethnic diversity is an attempt to come to terms with these inevitable differences in human life but they still remain ‘labels’ that tend to be fixed by the powerful on the less powerful. Because recording ethnic identity is a feature of youth justice practice, this first activity invites you to reflect on these issues. Activity 1 Ethnicity or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...multiple examples from extracurricular activities or internships – examples that might be easier for students from more advantaged backgrounds to obtain. They go on to list some typical strengths-based interview questions, including: What motivates you? What would your perfect day look like? How do you judge success? If a colleague was struggling to make a complex...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...multiple times or become addicted to a long-running programme? Of course, sometimes it is the excellent writing or acting that brings us back but more often it is a sense of familiarity, like we are visiting old friends. In other words, we form a relationship with the characters depicted in the story, and it is these relationships that bring us back. It is also, of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs