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Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...analysis recognises multiple perspectives in which knowledge, evidence, policies and practice are critically evaluated. Being able to take action in this sense is supported by a reflexive stance to practice, another element of critical practice noted in Figure 1. There are different ways of understanding reflexivity, but in this context it can be defined as a questioning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...analysis of art works as well as developing your study skills. Both the activities and the text in this course are designed to be worked on while you look closely at the art works. Plate 1: Turner prize artists Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993. (© The artist. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Tate Photography.) Gilbert and George, Life from Death Hope Life Fear, 1984,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...data collection and analysis across organisations and countries, thereby improving the management of wildfire fuels, facilitating ignition prevention, and reducing gaps in fire management preparedness and response. Identifying how existing wildfire management practices encourage or discourage harmful wildfires can help improve decision-making and management systems....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...analysis of the data concluded that managerial work had the following six characteristics. The manager performs a great quantity of work at an unrelenting pace. Managerial activity is characterised by variety, fragmentation and brevity. Managers prefer issues that are current, specific and ad hoc. The manager sits between his organisation and a network of contacts. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...analysis by Lim et al. in the USA suggests that measurement is an important part of determining if something can be claimed to be a positive eco-innovation. A 2008 report by the consultancy Technopolis identified some key problems with assessing innovation, namely difficulties associated with: agreeing on selected key eco-innovation indicators on the micro level, taking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...analysis, where the relationships and links between the items identified are explored; diagnosis, where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to intervention are examined...Diagramming for development 2: Exploring interrelationships: 2.1 When to use each diagram - For each diagram description below there is a suggested Activity which is itself an animated...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...data, now it wasn’t us, we didn’t come up with this, this was the Woodland Trust and the UK Phenology Network, really proper, strong scientific bodies who needed big data, but couldn’t get it, couldn’t afford it, but we had big audience. So we got big audience to create big data and we’re very proud of the fact that over those three years we created a data set...
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Video 40 mins
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...data from OECD (2018). Index: base year is 2010 (average of four quarters) = 100. Figure 2 is a line chart with each line representing the change in average house prices over the years in each particular country. The lines do not show actual house prices (in pounds, dollars, and so on). Instead, actual values have been converted to index values. See Box 1 for an...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs