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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...de facto lingua franca of business and places like Silicon Valley are the epicentre of innovation in their field, it is easy to forget that much creativity continues to happen in diverse cultural environments. In the modern, globalised age it is tempting to focus solely on the common features different organisations or perhaps even different people share. This temptation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential. Through academic research, pedagogic innovation and collaborative partnership, it seeks to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning. There is some feeling that...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...De Stefano 1998). Chen and DeStefano first indicated the excellent safety record of MMR in hundreds of millions of people worldwide over three decades. They questioned whether the newly identified syndrome of autistic enterocolitis could be considered clinically distinctive: ‘no clear case-definition was presented, a necessary requirement of a true new clinical syndrome...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...educational purposes or publicity purposes for certain organisations that I deem worthy. That’s a very subjective thing, but at least, because I own the copyright I can decide who uses it and at what rate. I think you have to be very careful about how you let it out there, at what resolution you send it, because once it goes out into the web to someone else, you can...
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Video 35 mins
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...educate patients and doctors about its benefits and reduced what she calls “morphine-phobia”. Opioid medications still require a special form, as in most countries worldwide. But a much wider range of professionals can now prescribe them, including oncologists and family and palliative care doctors. This has led to a 14-fold increase in their use in the country from...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...educational standpoint. It allows us to give due weight to the impact of significant texts at key historical moments, especially their role in shaping popular ideas and opinions. For instance, knowing who read, how many read, and how they responded to Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species helps us to understand the formation of Victorian ideas about evolution and race....
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...education, despite my devotion as a father… So you see this is coming from an incredible sense of guilt. I suppose what I’m trying to do is save my boy in retrospect. I stood next to his coffin in the church. It was packed with people – a shattered community – and I made him a public promise. I said that I would investigate what had happened to him and that I...
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Article 15 mins
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...educational qualifications and the, of course, and sadly, they're stigmatised by having the label 'offender' or 'ex-offender' applied to them. So that question is a much broader one and it's not simply the responsibility of the prison service to do something about that. Does prison work? part 2 Does prison work? part 3 (13 minutes 8 MB) RICHARD SPARKS So, what can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr