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Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...world that are entirely concerned with making judgements about whether science meets suitable ethical standards or not. Nowadays, we are used to expecting treatments for illnesses to have undergone significant testing in a scientific manner and expect that there should be evidence that something is effective before it is used as a widespread treatment. However, this was...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...World War shaped and affected the battle for the vote...This free course focuses on one example of democratic protest: the campaign to extend the vote to women in the UK. In the course you'll be introduced to two key figures in the campaign, Ada Nield Chew and May Billinghurst, and you'll look at the ways in which the Women's Social and Political Union, the National Union...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...world around them. To start you off, the following activity asks you to think about some of the commonly held beliefs about babies. Study note Throughout this course you will be asked to pause in your reading and undertake an activity, such as the one that follows this note. Activities are not a test, but they are a central way in which distance learning works. They...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...world. Interpretivist (or ‘critical’, or ‘post-positivist’) research focuses on understanding social phenomena. Such questions ask how a certain understanding of the world, set of social relations or array of practices comes to be. Implicit here is the sense that other ways of understanding and arranging the social world are possible, and perhaps desirable, even...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...world, it still has meaning because it has meaning for me in particular, because it is particular to me, but also if someone else has one of their own, it will mean something to them. But at the same time, as a symbol, it means something to everyone, so when anyone looks at one of these they will recognise the symbol and understand what it means. So it has a much wider...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...world and with those who teach them. Personal knowledge has tended to be undervalued in formal educational contexts, as it is individual and tacit – and therefore not easily open to ‘packaging’ as curriculum content or to being assessed. However, the value that a teacher attaches to personal knowledge will impact on how they teach. Procedural knowledge Procedural...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...world until Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Famously, Columbus made his voyage of discovery of the New World in 1492. Medieval Christendom could not but be aware of its neighbours. Trade, diplomacy and conquest connected Christendom to the wider world, which in turn had an impact on art. The luxury oriental fabrics painstakingly represented in paintings by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...world is changing – and changing fast. In many areas of life the old certainties are no more, and new solutions to old, new and future problems are needed. To survive, organisations have had to become more responsive and flexible enough to react quickly to environmental changes. Moreover, in high-wage economies, they have had to become creative enough to add value...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs