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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...working to maintain an appropriate social distance between ourselves and the people we are interacting with. The distance at which we hold people depends on our relationship with them as well as our mood or priorities at the time. [two women on a swing, facing one another] Messaging apps challenge our need to keep people at an appropriate or comfortable distance because...
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Article 5 mins
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...works in isolation from the historical context in which they were produced and the social functions that they served. More recent accounts of the Baroque, by contrast, take account of its sacral and courtly functions, applying the label especially to works that sought to make an overwhelming effect on their beholders in order to impress them with the power and glory both...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Investigating addiction
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating addiction

...social environment influence addictive behaviours? In this album, scientists in the US and the UK explore the psychology and biology of addiction by subjecting a recovering alcoholic and his sister, a non-addict, to a range of physiological, psychological and genetic studies. The results raise interesting questions about brain patterns underlying addictions, and how...
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Video 28 mins
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...worked out better than others. Our last health and social care supply teacher decided that she wanted a school in what she described as a ‘nicer area’. I didn't ask too closely what she meant, but it's a comment we still get from time to time. So, I had to make another call to the supply agency. My contact there is Roger Mannering. Roger explained that they were very...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...Social media and the immediacy of consumer-to-consumer communication in the digital era have fueled such protests. Multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been criticised by the Public Accounts Committee over tax avoidance. In order to counter the negative publicity, Starbucks plans to change its arrangements and pay UK corporation tax while Google has...
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Article 5 mins
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...work with them, to help them to change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I...
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Article 10 mins
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...social networking can be done informally and outside of the regular work environment, its value to your professional development can be marked (Davis, 2011). By sharing with peers and experts via networks, you can advance your online teaching skillset more rapidly than you would do alone, and solve issues that you may encounter by asking for assistance from your network....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves. Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation; it is reading that children do for themselves at their own pace, with whom they choose and in their own way. Reading for pleasure is more...
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Article 10 mins