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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...educational institutions, book publishers and reports such as this one from the World Health Organization. On top of this, systems thinking is used in UK policy making at both local and national government, has influenced the work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the Circular Economy and is thought to be an important facet of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...educational arm of the English Football League. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football and interested in discovering more about business and management then this engaging and stimulating free course is for you. In the following video Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 Live explains a little more about the topics you’ll examine. Transcript During this...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...technology (ICT) industry consumes massive amounts of power. However, in the absence of the large smoking chimneys that traditional industries have, this fact gets easily overlooked. The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2008) predicts that ICT will be responsible for 3% of global emissions by 2020. Just keeping the data available that facilitates a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...technology could also be used for harm but was always optimistic that the benefits of universal, free access to the would far outweigh its harmful aspects; "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now...
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Article 10 mins
Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...technology. So public opinion is vital, both in demanding action over change and in accepting the consequences of that change. Shifts in public opinion can result from activism, public awareness campaigns and propaganda. But one of the most potent agents for change is culture. Which is why the climate crisis is an issue that’s closely bound up with language, with...
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Video 5 mins
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...technological miracle is ultimately only a moving statue. She is a simulacrum which in Latin can mean sculpture, substitute, likeness and ghost. When the vampire Spike commissions April’s inventor to produce a Buffy robot to satisfy his passion for the Slayer (his natural nemesis) it raises all kinds of questions about the dead, the undead and the never alive in the...
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Article 5 mins
The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...technology, is a boom activity and I know some very sane people who have become totally obsessive about it. Everybody has a history, not just the famous or the infamous. [World War I soldiers [Posed by actors]] In the last few years local history societies have sprung up all over the country. There is hardly a town or community that now has not had at least one history...
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Article 10 mins
Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...technology-brokering, collaboration, dialogue and reflexivity are all important features. In keeping with the conceptualisation of creativity as a boundary phenomenon, collective creativity involves the study of our relational consciousness towards others and with ‘the other’. We need then not to think of creativity as an individual act or that we can reduce what is...
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Article 5 mins