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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...busy complaining and whining about Coursera and these big MOOC formats, my first response would be, you know, build something better that has a bigger impact globally on the quality of lives of people taking these courses and I’ll listen to your complaint. Up until then it’s just, you know, there’s no point in complaining about something that in my eyes is having...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...business and obviously there’s a huge number of enormous challenges out there, but I think during the course of my career, I’ve seen environment become a lot more mainstream. Everybody knows about climate change these days, everybody knows about pollution, everyone talks a lot about where their food comes from in ways they didn’t used to do, so I think there’s...
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Video 30 mins
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...business would permit, and returning to their trade and family affairs again. Jesus, in order to prove the truth of his divine doctrine by his works, wrought his first miracle at the marriage at Cana in Galilee, and was pleased that these two brothers should be present at it with his holy mother. Jesus, going up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, stayed some days in...
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Article 5 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...busy schedule, +Desmond regularly preached at the Cathedral, and he was on very good terms with Fr. Ted King the Dean. As +Desmond explained later in his own tribute to the late Ted King (who died of cancer in 1998) it was a “warm and cordial relationship” (Tutu, 2007) and helped him speak truth to power in his public ministry as Archbishop of Cape Town. His sermons...
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Article 10 mins
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...business report may require you to imagine that you are making recommendations to your boss or colleagues for a particular course of action. You need to strive for relevance and conciseness, and your report should proceed in a logical and ordered way...Essay and report writing skills: 4.3 Essays - Now let's turn to essays. Activity 4 Note down in your Learning Journal...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...business studies and the social sciences. Over time, multiple theories of leadership have been developed, each one retaining influences from the discipline in which it originated. For example, examining the behaviours and traits of individual leaders continues to be an area of study for those drawing on a background of psychology, whereas researchers emerging from a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...business links with Chinese-speaking countries. Or perhaps you are simply fascinated by the sound, the script and its ancient civilisation. There are so many reasons for learning Chinese, so many motivations and rewards, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. This course offers you an excellent start to achieving a basic understanding of the structure...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...busy and murmurous American arrivals. One could hardly get at the office window, on account of them, to plead for a room. A dense group of our countrywomen were buying picture-postals of the rather suave office-ladies, and helplessly fawning on them in the inept confidences of American women with all persons in official or servile attendance. "Let me stay here," one of...
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Article 10 mins