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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...system that provides for quality of life while renewing the environment and its resources. It is important to take the long-term view of how our actions effect future generations and make sure we don’t deplete resources or cause pollution at rates faster than the earth is able to renew them. The original definition of sustainable development is usually considered to be:...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...System 1 and System 2 thinking: System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations (Kahneman, 2011, pp.20–21) Figure 4 Daniel Kahneman System 1, in other words, is your intuition at work. Connson Chou Locke...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...systems, absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun and prevents it from reaching the surface of the planet, where it can be harmful to life. Sherwood Rowland was one of the two scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery, in the early 1970s, of the potential dangers of CFCs. One night, while he was working on the problem, his wife asked him how his work was...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...system (biological approach). People who scored highly on the E scale (extraverts) had low arousal levels, therefore they would seek arousal from their environment, such as socialising and thrill-seeking activities. Whereas those who had low scores on the E scale (introverts) already had an over-aroused nervous system and therefore would seek out situations that minimised...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...systems that help drive hybrid work, as you may be familiar with some of them already, and you are unlikely to need to use all of those shown in Figure 3. Many are fairly easy to get to grips with, so if you want to get a head start, many of the companies that developed them offer free access, user guides or tutorials on their websites; alternatively, you could search...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...systems for studying the underlying processes, and the results have a much wider application to the study of migration than just bird behaviour. Studies on genetics, the influence of magnetic fields and physiological processes behind homeostasis illustrate general principles, but as birds have attracted so much scientific attention, they provide some of the best examples...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Systemic Functional Linguistics or SFL – and shows how this deeper understanding can be applied to make everyday communication more effective. Halliday’s functional approach to the study of grammar is useful because it can enable us to better understand how written texts and spoken language work and how they relate to the context in which they are generated. In turn,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...system with the sun at the centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new ideas was aided by the development of printing using movable type, devised by Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) in the 1450s. There was also a significant change in the economy, with a decline in the number of people holding land...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs