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Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...social interaction, which can help to diffuse or lessen anxieties – as long as the child feels ready to engage. Through such activities, the adult can help the child make sense of how they are feeling, even if they do not yet have the vocabulary to describe this using words. Both adult and child can then work together to negotiate ways to react differently to similar...
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...interaction with social media apps, like Instagram. The app uses machine learning, a subset of AI, to determine the content to show you next based on your recent activity. A similar process is at work when you finish looking at a program on certain streaming apps too. Even though AI is all around us, it can be portrayed inaccurately, a common occurrence in Hollywood...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...social interaction within their households and communities over their life. The activities include assisting with household chores, caring for family members, undertaking religious practices, engaging in hobbies, or sharing stories, literature or other forms of media. Knowledge and understandings are also developed as part of social networks that go beyond the individual...
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...social issues by looking at how people behave as customers, particularly what they buy and how they use what they buy. Understanding customer behaviour is essential to effective marketing. As a business philosophy, marketing puts customers at the centre of an organisation’s strategy. It sees customer satisfaction and the long-term repeat business that should come from...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...social process, one that is shared among all members of a group and not restricted to a particular person, position or role. Activity 1: A model leader? Timing: 20 minutes Explore two notions which are frequently mentioned when talking about how to encourage inclusionary change without simply relying upon top-down processes; in particular: distributed leadership middle...
My career goal: Marketing
Money & Business

My career goal: Marketing

...social media in marketing Seth Goldstein, co-founder and CEO of SocialMedia.com, discusses the changing role of social media and its impact in developing a marketing strategy: Transcript What does a buyer actually do? As part of this documentary series for British Vogue, you will hear about the role of a fashion buyer, and how trend forecasting works in the industry. See...
Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds: the Temple of Diana at Nemi
History & The Arts

Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds: the Temple of Diana at Nemi

...social mobility, these cult objects reveal how lower social classes used mythical stories to empower themselves. This material forms part of The Open University course A330 Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds... Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds: the Temple of Diana at Nemi A short introduction to this album. The Temple of Diana at Nemi: temple model Examining the...
Veiling: Tradition, Identity and Fashion
History & The Arts

Veiling: Tradition, Identity and Fashion

...social environments? How do they negotiate diverse social and cultural influences, pressures and expectations, legal constraints, practical challenges and fashion trends? In this collection we explore the extraordinary range of different styles of Muslim dress and the emotions people can invest in them. Track 1 looks at different attitudes towards veiling in the Southern...