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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...world of Byzantine artistic production via its most illustrious representative – the icon...This free course provides a quick overview of the Byzantine icon; its function, the spaces it occupies and the subjects it depicts. The course spans two weeks. In Week 1, you will explore what an icon is, its function and importance within the Byzantine culture, and Christian...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...world and aim at returning a voice to all citizens. Research on the impact of invasive species on water supply has helped generate interest in today’s integrated invasive plant control effort. More economic studies that illustrate the impacts of invaders and the financial benefits of control are essential to justify the increasingly large-scale funding that the Working...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...world, but what is particular about scientific knowledge as opposed to, for example, historical knowledge or folklore? The nature of scientific knowledge is closely tied to the nature of science itself. Whilst the scientific method seeks to eliminate biases and subjective ideas from its body of knowledge, to view scientific knowledge as ‘fact’ or ‘truth’ would be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...world are found to be children younger than 18 years old. Increasingly, more children have their own mobile phone or mobile device (for example a tablet), watch television on their own devices, play games for at least a few hours per week, and use websites such as YouTube extensively more as they grow up. For example, in 2017, 81% of 8–11 years old in the UK were found...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...heritage, conservation, the environment, sports and so on. Therefore, the term ‘voluntary sector’ is used here more as a shorthand way of covering those diverse organisations, large or small, international or national, that operate on a not-for-profit basis and offer a wider public benefit. You will look further into the idea of sectors later but first you’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...world’s second biggest car producer. By 2005, MG Rover, Britain’s last independent car manufacturer, was declared bankrupt. Critics pointed out that Britain’s car industry had produced the wrong cars, for the wrong markets and at the wrong price. Quite simply, the market found competitors’ product offerings more satisfying. Another example of the importance of an...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...worlds. To an adult’s eye, some picture books may seem remarkably simple, even oversimplified. However, in this free course, Exploring books for children: words and pictures, you will learn how children’s books use words and pictures together in remarkably sophisticated ways to communicate both to young and older readers, drawing on examples from the classics, such as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...world struggled to come to terms with the implications of evolution. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The word 'evolution' means 'change over time' and it can be used in relation to anything that has a history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of parliamentary democracy. Biological evolution refers to the fact that the many organisms...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs