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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), with the aim of understanding how she writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...accountable. Most of the practices are applicable at all levels of management...Managing and managing people: 3 What does your effectiveness depend on? - At least four sets of factors influence your effectiveness as a manager, and not all of them are under your direct control. You. In the first place, there is you. You bring a unique blend of knowledge, skills, attitudes,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...account of an experience of conducting an inquiry/co-inquiry into your systems thinking in practice for managing change by using a STiP heuristic begin an inquiry into your own experience of practice that enables you to acknowledge, value and articulate your prior experience and its concerns...Week 1: Practising systems thinking in practice: 1 What do we mean by systems?...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...account of that? And there are all those different aspects. But behind it all, we have to remember, is it about greater sharing of practice amongst teachers and learners? In principle, we can be moving from individual to collective practices. Remember, and when you’ve got stuff out there, it’s not just about your students. It’s about students at other universities....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...account. Use the telescope.org link to visit the webcams page. On this page there are four webcam feeds, which can be selected using the Cameras panel below the main image. Click on each of the four cameras in turn to see live images from the site. Note that the view from the PIRATE and COAST internal cameras may appear dark as the telescopes inside the domes are not...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...accounting and knowing what is going on in an economy countries have bitten the bullet in many cases to come up with something that could just be the start of a plan. And, for me, that’s one of the most empowering things of this year, is that so many countries have prepared INDCs. It’s very disappointing that a lot of them are quite inadequate but the very fact that...
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Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...accountability organisational context. It is common for practitioners to feel most comfortable, and to operate most strongly, in particular roles: some may prefer to be a Facilitator, while others want to be an Advocate. With careful planning (and a little luck), an organisation will seek to put together a balanced team so that young people have access to practitioners...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...accounts doing great on the outside.” By the night before his bus ride, Kevin had suffered days of decline. “That’s when the bridge was the spot I decided on,” he recalls. Kevin rejects the notion that anyone ‘chooses’ to take their own life. “It’s not a choice when a voice in your head, a third party to your own conscience, is literally screaming in your...
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Article 15 mins