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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...account for around two-thirds of global warming since pre-industrial levels. Whilst governments and fossil fuel producers have started to make commitments to reduce methane emissions, the main focus of climate change policies and action to date has been to reduce CO2 emissions. These initiatives are yet to see global CO2 emissions fall significantly, but there is some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...accountability of the Scottish Parliament and that would continue to secure the position of Scotland within the United Kingdom (Holden, 2010) Following wide-ranging consultations the Commission made a number of recommendations in its final report Serving Scotland Better: Scotland and the United Kingdom in the 21st Century (Commission on Scottish Devolution, 2009)....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...account of Climate Psychology. This might seem counterintuitive, even shocking: how else can we save the planet when the threat is anthropogenic? There is an important distinction to be made in where the emphasis is placed when it comes to how consumer behaviour needs to be altered. Have you ever been plagued by a feeling that, however hard you try – recycling the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...accounts of proportionality (that is, on deciding whether or not there is a feasible alternative to damaging cultural property)...This free course, The ethics of cultural heritage, will provide the basic theory behind the protection of cultural property in war zones. It is structured in three parts: the protection of cultural property; the legal basis for that protection;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...account for these differences in terms of the processes that produce these rocks classify igneous rocks according to their grain size and mineralogical composition recognise the difference between a body fossil and a trace fossil...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1 Earth Sciences: reading the rocks - The Earth Sciences concern every part of our planet...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...account or page. Organic reach refers to the number of people who see an organic post’s content. This number can be quite low, particularly for posts that are overtly sales-focused, which most social media algorithms regard as low-quality content. This means the social media platform, say Facebook, will only share these posts with a small percentage (about 10 per cent)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...accounts and shows you her calculation to check. Is she correct? £ Float from last outing + 0.40 Discount voucher for restaurant + 5.00 Contribution from Ali (who left early) + 8.00 Food − 36.98 Drinks beforehand − 5.10 Taxi − 3.50 Tip − 3.00 Total − 35.18 Share among the remaining four of us ÷ 4 − 8.795 Round up to nearest 10p − 8.80 Everybody owes...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...account of someone’s (hectic) morning. And yet, during this account our protagonist encounters and experiences the state in numerous ways. Moreover, her experience is not unusual. As individuals, most of us will bump up against the state on a daily basis in many areas of our lives, although we might not always notice that we do so. This is because state actors,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs