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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...world, and distance is one of the biggest challenges to delivering any service there, including healthcare. It is just under an hour-and-a-half’s drive from the hospital to Tumurbat’s home, which is in a semi-rural hillside area – though it is still part of the Ulaanbaatar capital city region. (The Ulaanbaatar region – treated as a province in Mongolia – has a...
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AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...world impact of AI across work, accessibility, and society. The course also introduces Microsoft Copilot, showing how AI tools can support creativity, productivity, and everyday problem solving. Suitable for students, professionals, and leaders alike, AI fluency helps demystify AI and equips learners with the knowledge to engage with AI technologies thoughtfully,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...world in a particular way, because how you 'see' things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. This free course will help you to learn about the problems of defining a system and meet some of the key concepts used in systems theory: boundary, environment, positive and negative feedback, etc...What is systems thinking and practice? The essence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...World War (1939–45), under the Nazi regime, research was carried out on human beings that led to many deaths, deformities and long-term injuries. Revelations about this research were as great a shock for the post-war world as the death camps, because these acts of brutality and murder were conducted by doctors and scientists. After the war the victors held a series of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...world. The family unit now takes many different forms to the 20th century Western society construct of two parents and two children living in the family home. Celia Brackenridge (2006) acknowledges these changes in her definition of the term ‘parent’: Conventionally, the term ‘parent’ has been applied to the birth mother or father but it has become socially and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...world, the customer doesn't always pay. There might be another second set of customers who get other services who pay. We therefore have the idea of two different kinds of business models. One, where the customer is mainly paying for most if not all the service. And the other one where someone else is paying for some or all of the services. A simple dichotomy between two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?

...World Cup quarter-final against Spain. Hiddink wanted his players to practise penalties in the stadium, so it would be familiar for them. Instead of walking from the centre-circle to the spot, he made the players walk from the penalty spot at one end of the pitch to the penalty spot at the other end, before taking their kicks. That way, when the real thing came around,...
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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...world then international comparisons of tests are becoming more important to parents and young people – as well as governments. One of the ideas put forward in the series is that school students in Britain are ‘3 years behind’ China, particularly in maths. What does this mean? What is it based on? How helpful is it? International comparisons based on tests have to...
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