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Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...social life place on you. You can usually successfully work around busy periods, as long as you plan them into your revision schedule. Activity 6 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes. Figure 3 shows an example week of a study calendar. Using the headings in bold, make out your own study calendar to begin planning the lead up to your exam. You will need your calendar to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...social or, put another way, something that creates social or cultural value. Of course, this value can come in a lot of different forms: ease and effectiveness of use, economic value, aesthetic value, functionality, meaningfulness, all these things and more contribute to the way in which design creates value. Let’s think about the number of people that might be involved...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...social relations and their own ways of thinking, feeling and interacting with the world.’ Regardless of the disruptive and dehumanising nature of colonialism, it was presented as something beneficial for the colonised peoples. The means by which this narrative was implemented was through the promises of salvation, modernisation and civilisation. For this to hold any...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...social and ethical issues...Inheritance of characters: 1.2.1 The human genome: chromosomes and genes - Almost all of the different types of cell in an individual contain the same genetic material in the chromosomes, as a consequence of mitosis. You had a glimpse of the appearance of the 46 human chromosomes in Figure 1.1, and in this course we examine their size, shape...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...social needs fast enough to avoid the likelihood of future global warming and other kinds of pollution. One of the alternative sources to consider is solar energy. The Sun will radiate energy until it ceases thermonuclear fusion, in around 5 billion years. About 33% of the solar power that enters the Earth's system heats the atmosphere and contributes to setting winds and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...social context. In the 1990s, organisations paid more attention to the effect that work culture and environment have on the potential for creativity on people in organisations. In the current millennium the focus has shifted towards understanding creativity as an emergent phenomenon that builds on what has gone before and arises from ongoing interactions, a perspective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...social and emotional. Bento and Dias (2017), who are writing in the context of Portugal, suggest that the ‘open and constantly changing’ nature of the outdoors is rich with potential for learning and developing. In addition to the impact on children’s cognitive development, they outline other benefits to include: … being exposed to sunlight, natural elements, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...social rebellion. Faustus's motives in this speech seem to be mixed, neither all good nor all bad, rather like the Chorus's initial portrait of him. I'd like to say a bit more at this point about Faustus's desire to levy soldiers to ‘chase the Prince of Parma from our land’ (l. 95). In this line he is voicing antipathy to an Elizabethan hate-figure. Doctor Faustus was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs