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"So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales. In 24 lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University...
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Business consultant, former military intelligence officer, and award-winning Professor Stanley K. Ridgley of Drexel University has crafted these 24 lectures as an accessible way to engage with thinking that will help you think and act more strategically in business and in your own life, whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you're preparing to embark on a new career path.
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This course will boost your vocabulary, whether you want to enhance your personal lexicon, write or speak more articulately in professional settings, or advance your knowledge of the English language. For anyone who has ever grasped for the perfect word at a particular moment, this course provides a research-based and enjoyable method for improving your vocabulary.
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"In this course, you will learn the many ways in which our human brains deceive us and lead us to conclusions that have little to do with reality. You will also learn strategies that can be used to combat the mind's many deceptions. This course explains what is calleD: metacognition: thinking about thinking itself."--p. 1 of course guidebook.
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Conflict occurs in all human relationships. Handled badly, it harms individuals, relationships, organizations, communities, and nations. Handled well, it helps identify and solve problems and build stronger, deeper relationships. This course will help to define the different forms of conflict that may occur in any relationship and offer guidance and solutions for managing conflicts.
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In this course, you will explore the pragmatic benefits of diversity. You will see how differences in how people think contribute to the collective performance in a variety of contexts- including how differences improve prediction and problem solving and how they make systems more robust.
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Teaching is more than a job-- it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires...
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"Most of us would point to the human brain, and the resulting human mind, as the most significant adaptation of Homo sapiens. But there's at least one more critical tool in our arsenal of adaptions, one that we rarely consider or appreciate as a survival mechanism: our emotions. Professor Lawrence Ian Reed helps us consider emotions from an evolutionary point of view, exploring why we have these consistent feelings and physical responses to specific...
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In twelve rewarding lectures, Professor Allison Friederichs shares the secrets to sharpening the written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills. With humor and enthusiasm, along with dozens of tools, examples, and exercises, Professor Friederichs will teach how to select the right words; ensure proper grammar and punctuation; and analyze, craft, and edit your message, all while using a reader-centric lens.
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Professor Leary brings to the forefront of recent studies in self-presentation. After more than 40 years of experience in psychology and neuroscience, and with wry humor and a talent for distilling difficult concepts into manageable parts, he makes this fascinating topic accessible to audiences everywhere. Step up to a thought-provoking journey into the workings of the human social mind filled with self-discovery and insights into the other people...
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Review three types of surveillance-physical, electronic and data-and see how each type works. Review some of the many public and private uses of drones, and then consider policy issues such as what factors constitute permissible use of drone footage. Review three types of surveillance-physical, electronic and data-and see how each type works. Review some of the many public and private uses of drones, and then consider policy issues such as what factors...
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Any good research rests upon, above all else, method. This brilliantly conceived course gives a deep, detailed, and practical guide to proper research methods. As groundwork, grasp the features of good research and what defines it. Then study research methodology, from the classic experiment to surveys, case studies, field research, and more. Finally, learn to analyze data and communicate findings.
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