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Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...motivated teachers, appropriate learning materials, a curriculum relevant to the cultural context, an accessible built environment, and possibly nutrition. Economic, cultural, and political barriers can hold back disadvantaged groups, such as minority ethnic, disabled, or girl learners. In addition, one person’s freedom can be another’s problem. For example, the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...motivation for taking this course, you already possess some knowledge about the law. You know what ‘law’ means to you. [Picture of words associated with law set out as a completed jigsaw.] Figure 2 Words associated with law As individuals we all have preconceptions about what the ‘law’ is and its role, and this inevitably affects our understanding. During this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...et al., 2012), although this estimate could easily be doubled or trebled depending on manufacturing processes and efficiencies...Environmental management and organisations: 11.1.2 Waste production - At the other end of the input–output model, outputs from organisations in the form of waste are also significant. It is not possible to determine global waste outputs from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...et al, 2018). Faodar a thuigsinn ann an seagh fìor-bheag (gnìomhachdan co-cheangailte ri ‘uallach pearsanta’, leithid gèilleadh ris an lagh is cìsean a phàigheadh), gu ruige seagh fìor-mhòr, a’ cuimseachadh air dèiligeadh ri ana-cheartas sa chomann-sòisealta, a mhìnich Westheimer is Kahne (2004) mar shaoranachd a tha ‘stèidhichte air ceartas’. Tha e...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...et al. (2018) ‘Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 617, pp. 11, EDP Sciences Figure 4: Cleeves, L. (2015) ‘Molecular signposts of the physics and chemistry of planet formation’, PhD Thesis, University of Michigan Figure 5: Armitage, P.J. (2017) ‘Lecture notes on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...et simples dignités (‘Treatise on orders and plain dignities’); the other is from an article by Defoe (1660–1731), a novelist and social commentator, in an eighteenth-century newspaper. Read the two quotations then answer the following questions: How many groups or orders do Loyseau and Defoe identify? What is the basis for their division of society? Loyseau,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...et al. (1991) Three-dimensional analysis of the peculiar arterial patterns of the extremities in Lorisidae: the rete mirabile, Primatology Today, Elsevier Science; Figure 5 (b): Suckling, J. A., Suckling, E. E. and Walker, A. (1969) Suggested function of the vascular bundles in the limbs of Perodictus potto, Nature, vol. 221, January 25 1969. With permission of Nature...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...et al., 2014). Similarly, practice can vary between different types of practitioners. Some psychiatrists who have medical training might take more account of social factors than others. Some community psychiatric nurses focus on monitoring medication and others on more psychological approaches such as specific forms of talking or behavioural therapy. However, while some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs