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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...accountability before others’ (Peace at the Heart, 2022, p. 4). Managing conflict when it arises might be seen as peace making rather than peace building, which you focused on in Session 2. Whereas peace building is long term and preventative, peace making is reactive and involves developing skills in managing conflict non-violently and constructively when it inevitably...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...accounts for the great bulk of any person’s total lifetime learning – including that of a highly ‘schooled’ person. (Coombs and Ahmed, 1974, p. 8) Formal learning has the advantage of offering a structure that can be reassuring to learners, and qualifications that can be useful for gaining work. Some people, though, find a formal structure stifling and relish the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...account of specific socio-cultural contexts and the needs of particular learners...Week 2: Why do we educate?: 5 The capabilities model - The most recent approach of the three considered here is the capabilities model, developed initially by Amartya Sen (2010) whose writings concern social justice, quality of life and the removal of inequality. This model is based on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...account for a large diversity of planetary outcomes, from Earth-sized planetary cores that form first, to ice and gas giants that evolve later. Lastly, Section 3 focuses on the final stages of planet formation, and explores the core-accretion scenario further, as well as an alternative disc-instability scenario, where the formation of massive objects occurs first from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...account both data and algorithms, both of which are necessary to carrying out work in AI and related areas such as Data Science. Due to the complex nature of the challenges that are being addressed in such work, projects in this area often require teams made up of groups with complementary skills, experiences and resources. For example, a university-based group...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...Account for the units shown above for barium sulfate. The equilibrium for barium sulfate is: BaSO sub four times open s close right harpoon over left harpoon Ba super two plus times open aq close postfix plus SO sub four times super two minus times open aq close So the solubility product is given by equation left hand side cap k sub s times p equals right hand side open...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...accounted for by genetics. A review of 37 twin studies from across the world found the heritability of ADHD to range from 54% to 98% with the average (or mean) heritability reported as 74%. These figures suggest ADHD is one of the most heritable mental health conditions (Faraone and Larsson, 2019). Unsurprisingly, this high heritability has led to significant research on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...account is taken of children’s existing understanding (including ideas that may be incorrect), children are unlikely to see the relevance or make connections with their own experience. Questions that ask a child to remember something or apply a rule are unlikely to reveal their conceptual understanding. Various techniques can be used to find out what ideas a child holds...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs