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Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...education system’ or ‘transport system’. This everyday usage can lead to misunderstanding and conflict because different stakeholders will make different boundary judgements based on their different experiences. This is the same as saying that one person’s education system will be different to another’s. Conflict and confusion often arises because of lack of...
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...technology, writing music down from existing sounds is much easier, but in early times when there was no way of recording sound, this was a big challenge. So, how do musicians define the elements of pitch and rhythm, and how have musical scores evolved to convey them?...Week 1: Understanding the principles of musical scores: 1.1.4 The ear-eye connection - You may not have...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...education) and the growing ideas of material progress associated with Adam Smith's discussion of the ‘wealth of nations’ (den Boer, 1995, pp.58–65). A general idea of progress associated with the mainstream of European development soon began to prevail over the cultural elitism implied by the emphasis on civilization. It took a specific political form in the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...technology moved with time from the primary evaluation of single compounds in animal models, through organ baths to modern ultra high-throughput profiling of millions of compounds, the character and appearance of molecules evolved too. Such approaches may provide very many active compounds against the primary target; but to be an effective drug, the experimental molecule...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Technology Support Unit was asked by the European Commission to assess the costs and benefits of the proposed changes (Brown, 1996). Determining the private costs of the measure is beyond the scope of this course, but quantifying the externalities provides an interesting example of the use of this tool. The assessment was based on the ExternE methodology, which can be...
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...technologies that we develop to accomplish that, they'll become available to other countries and hopefully those countries will feel the same imperative eventually to become energy efficient and put in place all the renewable systems. I So if I had to put you on the spot and give you a statement and just to see whether you would go along with it, so would you say that the...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...educate his readers (although the educational content of this poetry often concerned scandalous themes!). Famous works from this period include Ars Amatoria (‘The Art of Love’) and Remedia Amoris (‘Cures for Love’). 4 8 CE, Ovid is exiled (or so he says!) to Tomis. By the time of his exile he had written the Metamorphoses and was working on a poem called the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...educates him by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction. He finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad. Every master has found his materials collected, and his power lay in his sympathy with his people, and in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an...