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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...attention on the context and greater efforts to understand and respond to changes in the context; to situate development interventions within a complex, messy and dynamic context. The three official donors mentioned above each has their own flavour of adaptive management: DFAT: ‘thinking and acting politically’ USAID: ‘collaborate, learn and adapt (CLA)’ DFID:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...attention on the bass clef, or left hand part. Composers often weave several separate lines of music together to create what is known as a contrapuntal texture. Most of us are familiar with songs like ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ or ‘Frere Jacques’ that can be sung with one person starting off and then another and another starting at a fixed interval later. This is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...attention of an increasing number of astronomers since the first example was identified in the 1940s. By one recent estimate, a fifth of all research astronomers are working on active galaxies, which indicates how important this field is. In this section you will learn about the observational characteristics of the four main classes of active galaxies: Seyfert galaxies,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...attention of Fritz Fischer and his historiographical allies’, he argues that ‘the Germans were not the only imperialists and not the only ones to succumb to paranoia.’ Rather, the crisis of 1914 ‘was the fruit of a shared political culture’ (Ibid, p. 561). The centenary brought a somewhat unexpected revival of the debate on the origins of the war, and the topic...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...attention, a specific time period, or your own country, city or region. Identify and note in the text box below up to five clippings that you think will be of interest to your group. In the next section you will consider further how best to present them to young people. Religious Toleration and Peace clippings To avoid losing your place in the course, you should open the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...attention to pages 123–128. Now think about your own personal learning network and sketch out how it might look. You may wish to consider the following questions: What sources do you use regularly? Where or who do you look to for sources of information or resources? Are there gaps in your network? How might you extend your network? Discussion Everyone’s PLN is unique,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...attention) from negligible-risk problems (which do not). Of course, you can try to quantify such risks, but still your perception of whether that is acceptable might differ from someone else’s...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: 3.2 Calculating probability - Coins and dice provide good examples for considering probability, as there is a limited but...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...attention of all these players is consumption. Directing or limiting consumption is politically difficult for even the NGOs to promote. Similarly, ‘voluntary simplicity’ of the sort lived at Findhorn eco-village (Box 2) is not something that mainstream business will support. Hence sustainable consumption is an obvious goal around which these partners can gather. Two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs