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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...system, not principally for climate reasons but for air pollution reasons. Fossil fuels are both climate pollutants but they are also the main cause of localised air pollution and China’s cities are choking under diesel from cars and coal from nearby coal-fired power stations and China’s air quality is terrible, it has awful health effects. Many millions of people...
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Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...system and keep dialysis machines running. When we are online, the algorithms from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook/Meta let us find information, recommend products and provide news based on what we like and who we are. But why should designers care about algorithms? Well, today design can’t be separated from computation. Algorithms can be used creatively...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...system (e.g.: the personal, the team and the wider organisation). They noted that the boundaries between levels are not always clear, particularly if people are trying to work in flexible and fluid ways. But they also noted that taking a multi-level view of inclusive leadership was an important consideration point within the literature. [Diagram of a circle cut into four,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...system. There is irony in democracy’s popularity. Only just over 200 years ago, to be a ‘democrat’ was to be on the political fringe, perhaps a dangerous radical. At the time of the American and French revolutions – often taken to be the twin birthplaces of modern democracy – ‘democracy’ still largely meant what we would call ‘direct democracy’. Direct...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...Systems of Organization: The Control of Task and Sentient Boundaries, London, Tavistock. ’t Hart, P. (2014) Understanding Public Leadership, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. Thomas, K.W. (1977) ‘Toward multi-dimensional values in teaching: the example of conflict behaviors’, Academy of Management Review, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 484–90. West, M.A. (2004) Effective...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...systems required, with specific standards that had a language of their own. You might reflect here on whether you have, or would, share teaching resources using the learning object approach. What do you think would be the main issues for educators and teachers?...Open education: 2.4 OER issues - Figure 4 In 2001 the OER movement began when MIT announced its OpenCourseWare...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...system later than their white counterparts, and that's for fear of being hospitalized, fear of being stigmatized. They arrive at hospital at crisis point, really. DAVID HAREWOOD Let me just-- I'm going to go to for my bag here-- I want to look, show you my records from 30 years ago. CHANELLE MYRIE Oh, wow. DAVID HAREWOOD See, look at this, I mean, this is like-- this is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...systemic functional linguistics (SFL). [Described image] Figure 6 Michael Halliday Halliday (2004) argues that there are three ways of thinking about the relationship between learning and language: learning a language, learning through language and learning about language. As children are socialised, they are engaged in all three processes simultaneously. They learn a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs