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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...community are knowers, learners, researchers, and are constantly theorising and creating narratives about what is happening. Inquiry as a project This is how inquiry is more commonly conceived, where it is related to defined, time specific intervention or a series of activities that are planned in advance. Wall, Beck and Scott (2020) discuss this form of inquiry as ‘a...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...communities ought to live in better, fairer and more equal ways. As a collection of virtues that expect or demand something better, this ‘equity’ will be considered in terms of its capability to disrupt normative social conditions and practices, including mainstream legal reasoning. This radical twist to equity equates in part to Davina Cooper’s ‘everyday...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...community life or social capital, very similar relationships, closely related to inequality. I may say we did all this work twice. We did it first on these rich developed countries. And then as a separate test bed, we repeated it all on the 50 American states, asking just the same question, do the more unequal states do worse on all these kinds of measures? So here is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...communicated and taken up over time. Rogers’ work is important because it emphasises that the innovation itself is not the only determinant of its ‘success’. There must also be communication channels, time and a social system in place to enable the innovation to be used and adopted more and more widely. Rogers also identifies the different categories of adopters:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...communities worldwide. Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Record some initial thoughts on what you think international relations means/covers. You can then reflect on you initial answer after reading the next section...Introducing International Relations: 1.1 The subject of international relations - Every academic discipline has a main focus, or purpose. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...communication and gain insights into Chinese society and culture. This free course, Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course, provides a brief introduction to the Chinese language, its scripts and sounds, and how words are formed. You will hear short conversations where people greet each other and introduce themselves, and learn how to count from one to ten. You’ll learn...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs