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Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...creative-destructive’ tendencies of capitalism, although the extent to which the costs of the destructive aspect of this phenomenon are considered acceptable is a subject that divides opinion to this day. As Godin (2008) notes, Schumpeter (1912, 1934) provides us with an early characterisation of innovation as any of five phenomena: the introduction of a new good the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...writing, could be prosecuted by the state for ‘sedition’. Authors often sought to avoid prosecution by using a pseudonym. The pseudonym in this case is also significant: Hibernia is the Latin word for Ireland, and ‘Hibernicus’ means ‘of or pertaining to the Irish people’. Although England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales had long shared a monarch, in 1801, for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © Rouzes/Getty Images. Every effort has been made to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...creative team spirit. This tension is particularly important in considering the development of groups and teams. A team will usually have been formed to undertake a specific task, but its success in this may depend on the interpersonal dynamics within the team. Therefore, the job of developing a team and managing its dynamics requires as much attention as managing the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...writing exercise is designed to help you develop a specific work problem or change statement. Go through the three steps suggested below. Step 1: Describe in two or three sentences the opportunity or change that you have identified. Step 2: Look at every describing word (and question as below) and define each that you feel are necessary. Note that this is an iterative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...writing as they sat so far away. I considered my first lesson a success as students were very engaged in observing my demonstrations, taking notes and were well behaved. This is what I would expect in a Chinese classroom using the ‘teacher led’ teaching style. It is supposed to be authoritarian and formal, where the teacher stands in front of a class and explains the...
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Article 10 mins
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...writings of Geoffrey Vickers, Russell Ackoff or other systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent public service systems up into competing...
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Video 15 mins
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...writes Feijó. “During the 18th century, accounts of lycanthropy were left behind as the European Enlightenment movement classified them as irrational and obscure. But people who belong to a kind other than the human seem to have sprung from the blind spots of modernity, and have grown strong and visible for the last four decades.” Feijó points to a medley of...
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Article 10 mins