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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
Life behind a mask
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life behind a mask

...socially distancing from friends and loved ones, remote working implemented across the UK, washing and sanitising our hands for more than 20 seconds, and now wearing face coverings in supermarkets and shops. One of the most powerful tools in communication is the face. People can easily make a number of inferences from facial expressions about physical health, emotional...
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Article 10 mins
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...social conditions would fundamentally affect the buildings of the future. The Declaration also asserted that as society became more industrialised, it was vital that architects and the construction industry rationalise their methods, embrace new technologies and strive for greater efficiency. (Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the...
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Article 5 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...Social Care. If you find this course interesting, take a look at the Open University course K220 Death, Dying and Bereavement. Alternatively, you can explore the related OpenLearn course, An introduction to death, dying and grief...Death and medicine: Postponement and promise: Learning outcomes - After completing this course, you should be able to: evaluate end-of-life...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...social contract by placing people and the work they do at the centre of economic and social policy and business practice.’ 5. Look at the table on p. 51 of the report, outlining the ten points for realising a ‘human-centred agenda’ based on three ‘investment’ goals. Afterwards, search for examples of organisations that are trying to achieve at least 1 of the 3...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...social media, the giving and taking of offence seems to have become an integral part of modern life. The news media regularly spark moral panics about the rise of a new McCarthyism, we’re told that universities are suffering from a crisis of academic freedom, politics has become an all-out struggle over competing claims of victimhood, and everywhere people seem to be...
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Video 30 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
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