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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...everyday situation that people don't realise. JOHN BROWN: I've had the keys for the shop. And I thought I would never be able to pay my debt. They'd close the shop up. BILLY PAUL MCCONDOCHIE: I do see a future here, a career. Because this is a start of something big. They're already on their third shop. And the fourth one's coming within weeks. So I want to do something...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...English are clearly not French! They are not German and they are not Turkish and a few of the more enthusiastic football supporters will go along with that! So I mean this is one way of getting European unity. Otherwise this diversity might be formally accepted but instinctively and in terms of personal or national identity is actually difficult to comes to grips with. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...English equivalent for the Italian tempo indication Allegro ma non troppo is Fast but not too much. Fast is Allegro, and Fast with vigour, Allegro con brio. Activity 2 Select the answer for Activity 2 here Which degree of the scale is the D in the first bar? (Identify the key of the melody first.) dominant submediant subdominant a. dominant b. submediant c. subdominant...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...everyday understandings. This means that an organisational career for life doesn’t apply in many sectors; this is also true of STEM based careers – a career is a lifetime narrative that can change over time. For example, many career experts talk about the ‘boundaryless career’ and protean careers. These terms describe a career being led by the individual rather...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...everyday emissions could, within 50 years, push our climate to a critical point where change is no longer gradual but sudden and extreme. There's no threat of extinction in the Carbon's house. On the contrary, there is plenty of food here. Often it will have crossed continents by the time it reaches their kitchen. Transporting this food accounts for over a tenth of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...everyday decisions – say, what film to watch or what to have for dinner – you might simply weigh up the values of each option and choose the better one. However, in cases which pit cultural heritage against human lives, this is not so easy. One reason for this difficulty is that the forms of value held by heritage and lives appear to be incommensurable. Two values,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...English word ‘tangible’, which means ‘capable of being touched’, comes from the same Latin word. The word ‘integer’ also comes from this Latin word (an integer is a whole, or ‘untouched’, number). The tangent to any curved graph at a particular point can be defined in a similar way. Because the tangent to a graph at a point has the same steepness as the...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...English. The name derives from Conmaicne mara, meaning the seaside land of the descendants of Conmac. In Irish legend, Conmac was a son of Fergus Mòr, king of Ulster, and Maedhbh, queen of Connacht.) The largest chaos region on Europa is more than a thousand kilometres across, and the small end of the size spectrum is exemplified by the resurfaced area at D/E-5/6 in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs