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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...autonomous’ function. Set design, naturalistic acting and realistic situations create the illusion of reality, thus serving the conventions of the realist drama of, say, Ibsen or Chekhov. As with the other performance spaces, this has its limitations. The playful engagement with the audience by use of asides in Shakespearean and Restoration drama is severely hampered by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...autonomous power sources. So apart from those token or ceremonial flames, however, the only fire that might occur here is a wildfire. And that turns out to be a pretty apt metaphor for industrial landscapes generally. So let me see if I can summarise this very brief history of a very big subject. For aeons, natural fire prevailed, but it was lumpy in space and time. And...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...autonomous practice; that is, one separated from wider social forces and interests. New questions seemed to impose themselves: What ideological role did art play in sustaining established wealth and power, from the medieval church to the corporate museum? How did the institutions of art (the guild, academy, art school, auction house or gallery) shape its production and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...autonomous decisions, though some purchases will involve partners and family or other household members. In B2B purchasing, however, other people are always involved in buying decisions. Their opinions or interests will all need to be taken into account by the person who is responsible for placing the order. This means that business buying behaviour is typically more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...autonomous work with children, the reality of these settings is that the increasingly multi-faceted work of the early childhood practitioner requires effective interaction with other adults as members of a multi-disciplinary team. When practitioners talk about the staff at their setting, the word ‘team’ is often used. 'With leadership…the ability to build and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...autonomous member of the same species can give – for example, against predators which find defenceless young animals an attractive and easy prey – and the need to learn crucial life skills from more knowledgeable and experienced individuals. [Described image] Figure 2 A parent bird and parent mammal with their young For a species to survive, there have to be efficient...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...Système International (SI) of units recognises factors going up or down in steps of one thousand, although below a thousand factors of ten are also recognised. Thus all the factors shown in Tables 1 and 2 are recognised by the Système International. Although in the UK we still tend to use the mile when discussing large distances, the standard measure in most other...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...autonomously (Guilmartin, 2024). SPYROS FOUNTAS: Hello, my name is Spyros Fountas and I'm professor on precision agriculture in Agricultural University of Athens. I'm the scientific coordinator of the ICAERUS project. And the idea of the project started, actually, from our group that we've been working with drones for the last 10 years in various aspects in agriculture...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs