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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...simple form of 'language'. Dolphins can be trained to respond to commands and perform tricks - and they can develop and vary these routines and imitate each other's behaviour. On the other hand, the large brain and the folding of the cerebral cortex may be simply a function of the size of these animals, or a consequence of the need to produce and process such complex...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...simple difference between the two. Based on the historical data on nominal returns for the period 1900–2000 (Dimson et al., 2002) and using Treasury bills as the risk-free investment, the equity risk premium was 12.1% – 5.1% = 7%. If, instead, long-term government bonds were used as the risk-free benchmark, the market premium was somewhat lower: 12.1% – 6.1% = 6%....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...simple terms, ungrouped data is raw data that has not been categorised or grouped in categories. For example, a manager in a firm knows that 100 employees work in their firm; this is raw data because it does not tell you how many employees work in each department (e.g. buying, production, sales, distribution). However, if you have raw data that is categorised, it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...simple way incorporated into the Western canon. The point is more complex than that and has more profound consequences. Due to a mixture of forces partly intellectual, partly political, adding up to the constellation inadequately labelled ‘globalisation’, the Western canon itself has, so to speak, been ‘hybridised’. In what is surely one of the few unqualified...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...simple examples. What happens if we look at the total GDP (in PPP $) over the last thirty years on a scatterplot? We'll use China as an example. First, using a linear scale. From about the year 2000, the vertical space between consecutive yearly values seems to be increasing year on year. But what does that mean in terms of the percentage increase year on year? If you...
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Video 45 mins
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...simple phrase ‘light, not heat’. Use technology to simulate reality In other words, use information technology to bring people together in the virtual realm. In the teams surveyed by Majchrzak et al., many teams found email and video conferencing to be poor ways to communicate and collaborate. Instead, most teams used conference calls and shared websites. It is...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...simple things you can do and lots of resources to help you. Some of these are listed on the next page. Good quality RE is not about absolute agreement or consensus, but it is about valuing dialogue and mutual respect and preparing our children to be better able to face future challenges in our diverse and interconnected world...An education in Religion and Worldviews: 4.2...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...simple’ explanations and ‘disrupt’ commonplace assumptions. You may find that this shifts and develops your understanding of ‘equality’ and the aspects associated with it. The various approaches to ‘equality’ are based on different notions of what is valued and whether individual agency or society structures are seen as the primary force in determining life...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs