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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...concepts used in Systems Practice. What is a mess? and how does it differ from a difficulty? Find out here! One of the key principles in Systems Thinking is feedback. If you want to know more about Systems Thinking, the Open University course T205 Systems Thinking, Principles and Practice is an excellent introduction to the discipline. Definitions of some generalized...
Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...concepts and theories to provide better working environments. However, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these issues to the surface in an accelerated and contracted way, and even as restrictions ease, the effects continue to reverberate. We were already in an unpredictable and continuously changing modern business world, categorised by economic...
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...de Goya, Self-Portrait, Plate 1 of Los Caprichos print series, 1799, etching, 22 x 15.3 cm, private collection. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library...Goya: 1.2 Napoleon and the Spanish imbroglio - Napoleon later admitted that his intervention in Spain in 1807 was among his worst mistakes. He referred to it as ‘the Spanish wasps’ nest’ or ‘the Spanish ulcer’, which...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution

...concepts of evolutionary science and investigate how these account for the characteristics of arctic reindeer. How do natural selection and other evolutionary processes produce changes in genes? How do new species originate? And how are large-scale evolutionary patterns generated. The material forms part of the course S366 Evolution... Evolution A short introduction to...
Audio 25 mins
Wordsworth re-visited
History & The Arts

Wordsworth re-visited

...the Romantic era, poetry evolved as a cultural and ideological tradition. This short, dynamic lecture highlights the cultural and revolutionary texture of such verse. Contemporary influences Wordsworth's literary conception of nature was hugely informed by his contemporaries. Using examples from key texts, these influences are mapped and compared in intriguing detail....
Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art
History & The Arts

Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art

...prompting reflection on how viewers relate to the themes presented. [Larry Achiampong's Pan African flag]Pan African flag for The Relic Travellers Alliance Achiampong’s work is also notable for its playful yet poignant commentary on contemporary issues. He employs humour and irony, juxtaposing seemingly disparate elements to provoke thought and discussion. For instance,...
The history of Spanish in about six minutes
Languages

The history of Spanish in about six minutes

...Rodríguez Gómez, Santiago Sánchez Moreano and Maricela Taylor. Resources Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española: https://www.asale.org/ Biblioteca Digital Hispánica: http://www.bne.es/en/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/ Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...conceptions of learning, and learning through other,.]Figure 1 Learning in the workplace as a complex web (Ferguson, 2021, p. 124)Show description The diagram shows 7 circles linked with black arrows on a background of a spider's web. The first circle shows an icon of a figure walking with a stick and backpack. The text Journey of the self is shown under the circle. The...