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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...English language, the UK is clearly a model on how not to do it. If you look at the last 20 years or so of UK climate policy, a few things have happened. One thing that has not happened is that emissions have fallen in any measurable or substantive way. But what has happened is that most people got a little bit poorer because energy's more expensive, or a little bit...
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Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...English word ‘father’. A line over a ‘u’ or over an ‘i’, as in ‘tanpūra’ or ‘sthāyī’, respectively, indicates that the vowel is given a longer duration. A mark over an ‘s’, as in ‘bandiś’, indicates that the letter is to be pronounced as ‘sh’. Note that when this course quotes from an external source, that source’s preferred way...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...English Dictionary (2023) defines it as: Soundness of moral principle; the character of uncorrupted virtue, especially in relation to truth and fair dealing; uprightness, honesty. It might also be described as always doing the right thing and being honest. Amster (2015) offers the following tips to help you strengthen your integrity in the workplace: Fulfil your promises...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...English who was looking at how students and faculty think about moments of difficulty in the classroom. She wasn't asking does it work, she wasn't asking what does it look like, she was really theorizing about difficulty, and helping all of us who have moments of difficulty in the classroom think about how to make sense of that. Video 3 Taxonomy of questions Taxonomy of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...English and American history, they may also know nothing about it. For your purposes here, however, that should not be a problem. The commentary on the website provides some essential context, particularly in pointing out that Williams’s ideas were unusual for his time and contrasting them with the then dominant ‘old European’ way of close identification between...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...everyday experience of the world around us leads us to think that a flat spatial geometry is perhaps most ‘natural’, this flatness has historically been understood to present a fine-tuning problem for cosmological theory, known as the flatness problem. It is unclear what physics contrives to ensure the matter and energy content of the Universe at the Planck time was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...everyday stressors understand time pressures and the need for time management...Managing and managing people: 1 What do managers actually do? - In this course we provide a number of views on the nature of management and what managers actually do. Then we look at the kinds of problems and issues that you deal with in your management role: we hope you will see that they...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...everyday language, insectivore means 'insect eater', but in LoM and in this course its meaning is much more precise. Insectivores are insect-eating mammals, classified together on the basis of a reasonably close evolutionary relationship. So, for our purposes, an insectivore is a member of the order Insectivora. But as DA points out (and the photograph on p. 39 very...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs