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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...de Waal, combines family history to create a fascinating biography of a collection of netsuke. De Waal, E. (2010) The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, London, Vintage. Okada, B.T. (1980) 'Netsuke: the small sculptures of Japan', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 2–48 [Online]. Available at http://www.jstor.org/ stable/...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – where the main business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...de-power the potential for the coaching. Where coaching becomes weak or uncertain it is often the rapport factor that needs attention rather than any other influence. We can hardly emphasise this enough! Activity 2 Impact of good rapport Timing: Allow around 10 minutes for this activity. Watch Video 2 to see the impact of good rapport on a coaching session. NARRATOR In...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...education, environment) multiple levels (e.g. local, national, global; micro, meso, macro). Difference This quality is rooted in the reality that all of the interested parties come with their own specific identities, arising out of – and contributing to – their own specific histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...education, community science, crowd-based or crowd-sourced science and volunteer monitoring, to name a few. The term citizen science was first used in the 1990s in both the UK and the USA and came from two different frameworks. In his book Citizen Science, Alan Irwin considers the role that scientific expertise can play in bringing the public and science together and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...de Waal presents and discusses examples of collaboration and co-operation between animals (including in problem-solving). He frames the need for co-operation as part of the basis of morality. His discussion includes some early work with chimpanzees, which led to the ‘cooperating elephants’ study that you learned about in Section 5.2 of this course, as well as footage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs