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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...geography. A cartographer called Waldo Tobler was drawing new maps of the planet. And these maps have now spread. And I'm going to show you one of them now. This map is a map of the world. But it is a map which looks to you a little bit strange. It's a map in which we stretched places so that those areas which contain many people are drawn larger. And those areas, like...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...geography and/or politics, or even ‘ethnic’ characteristics. In fact, ‘Celtic’ is a linguistic definition, referring to a group of related languages. Scotland can be defined as a ‘Celtic’ nation because of its linguistic background. Pictish and Cumbric were Celtic languages, as is Gaelic, arguably the language which had the greatest influence in establishing a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...geographies is a fool’s errand, much as we’d like to think otherwise. (Khanna, 2014, p. 60) Khanna stresses that ‘Most universal truths about management play out differently in different contexts: best practices don’t necessarily travel’. Accordingly, ‘Global companies won’t succeed in unfamiliar markets unless they adapt – or even rebuild – their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...geography and the sociology of consumption, generated new ideas about markets and demand, informing and advising governments, which developed ‘predict and provide’ policies. It was also a time of growing consumer awareness and movement, such as those demanding greater automobile safety. The management challenge of this process is relatively simple: invest in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...Geography English oak leaf pores, SEM: Power and Syred / Science Photo Library Male catkins of English oak (Quercus robur), Fagaceae: De Agostini Picture Library / Universal Images Group/Alamy Hubble Spotlight on Irregular Galaxy IC 3583: ESA/Hubble & NASA Death of Giant Galaxies Spreads from the Core - Elliptical galaxy IC 2006: NASA/ESA/Judy Schmidt and J. Blakeslee...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...Geography. The appeal of non-fiction for Ruby seems to be that she can read small chunks of information and dip in and out of the text. She also often comments on the illustrations and photographs in her reading. Nafiul doesn’t choose books to read. His favourite activity at home is console games, but he has recently shown an interest in The Beano and The Phoenix comics...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...geography, no less than its history, Egypt played and plays an ambiguous role in the European imagination. The relationship of Egyptian art and culture to the ‘Western’ tradition continues to be a subject of debate. For a long time, the conventional view was that Egypt stood outside the Western canon, and the literature is studded with references that situate Egypt...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...geography and societies. To stereotypical European perceptions of Africans as ‘barbaric’, Park brought corrective insights based on his own first-hand observation and experience. This was one of many examples of reason correcting prejudice. Even as Romanticism was gaining pace in literature and art, the Enlightenment's concern for accurate facts and sound reasoning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs