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How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...technology. Its sheer density of industrial development meant Europe was now always one step ahead. In the First Anglo-Chinese War, the paddle steamer Nemesis blew Chinese junks out of the water, and Chinese matchlocks were no match for European flintlock guns. By the late nineteenth century, Europeans were introducing rifled guns (lined with ridges that increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from food waste...Waste management and environmentalism in China: Strategy 3: Improving technology - Burning or incinerating MSW dramatically reduces the volume of waste to be dealt with and is an important way of dealing with the waste problem in China. However, a modern plant should not be designed just with mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...education (Article 28). You can read the full Convention, and a summary, if you click here. If you are thinking about planning a research project with and by children or young people, three of the articles stand out as particularly relevant in this context: Article 3 In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...technology has progressed enough to enable us to see atoms. Figure 1 was produced with a type of microscope that enables us to distinguish individual gold atoms. Different types of atoms combine in a number of ways to form the varying substances of matter. You might think there would need to be a huge number of different sorts of atoms to account for all the substances...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...technology education and in education for sustainable development; (d) practice – whether in conducting an analysis or being professional. There are a number of responses available to Schön's invitation to descend into the swamp of messy, confusing problems. Russell Ackoff uses the term messes to refer to the swamp, and difficulties to refer to the high ground. You may...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...education system, and so on. But speech changes all the time and, eventually, written language will start to accommodate some of the changes that are taking place in the spoken language. You just have to listen to people talking English now to know that spoken language changes much more readily than written language. Think of grandparents and the problems they sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...Education, Childhood & Youth...Professional relationships with young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the importance of developing positive professional relationships with young people recognise the qualities and attitudes which support the development of professional and helping relationships describe what a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...education...This free course, Assessment in secondary mathematics, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing mathematics in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a mathematics teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs