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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...concepts in politics, and the implications of such contestability for the practice and study of politics...What is politics?: 1 Politics: the extraordinary and the ordinary - As you are obviously interested in studying politics, you probably already have a sense that politics is important. You may also have developed some ideas of what politics is all about. Activity 1...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Metric spaces and continuity
Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...concept allows us to generalise the notion of continuity. Section 2 develops the idea of sequences and convergence in metric spaces. Section 3 builds on the ideas from the first two sections to formulate a definition of continuity for functions between metric spaces...This free course contains an introduction to metric spaces and continuity. The key idea is to use three...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Univariate continuous distribution theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Univariate continuous distribution theory

...concept of expectation or expected value, the familiar notion of the mean, also known as the first moment, two general definitions of moments, variance, random variables linked by linear transformation and finally, how to deal with moments all in one go, using the moment generating function...This free course looks at a number of the basic properties of statistical...
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...concepts in physics, chemistry, biology and life-sciences, and Earth and environmental sciences. Across these multiple disciplines you will meet time scales that include ages, durations and rates, and size scales including distances in three dimensions, which underpin areas and volumes...Scale – dealing with the miniscule to the massive, over milliseconds to millennia...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt gender-stereotyped behaviors (e.g., preferring colors like pink or blue) until the age of two or three. A few years later, their concept of gender becomes quite rigid, and although it becomes more relaxed by middle childhood, even adults have trouble...
The Art of Rich Pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

The Art of Rich Pictures

...concept is wide ranging and has evolved over thousands of years. They can be seen on ancient cave walls, are used in therapy and they signal to us in globally understood icon. They are also a way to debate large and significant problems. This collection of films explores the concept of Rich Pictures and many ways images have evolved into communication tools... The Art of...
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...concepts and ‘thinking geographically’. The second section explores how students can be engaged in geography, focusing on the use of enquiry and young people’s geographies to support learning. Section 3 discusses creativity in geography. The final section explores opportunities and challenges related to teaching controversial issues. This course is based on a...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Thought and Experience
History & The Arts

Thought and Experience

...concept of mind A detailed discussion about the Aristotelian concept of the soul and the Cartesian concept of the mind by Susan James Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind A detailed discussion about various approaches to contemporary philosophy of mind focusing on the computational view Ancient philosophers' views on emotions A detailed discussion with Professor...