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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by different team members is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...social class. But we belong to ecosystems as well, and the adaptability of human beings means that we can be found in all sorts of environments from the poles to the equator. As we have seen, all living things shape – and are shaped by – the physical environments that they inhabit. But no other species has our capacity to alter the world around it, to maximise the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...socially pretty diverse (see Figure 1). These institutional factors played a decisive role in shaping the very nature of French art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The huge history paintings on display today in the Daru and Mollien rooms would not have come into existence without the state as actual patron or potential buyer: they are mostly too...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...social-security system, the telephone system, computing systems and even ‘The System’. The trouble is that our everyday language is often imprecise, and people use the same word to mean different things (that is one reason why software development can be an arduous process). The word system is derived from the Greek word meaning ‘to set up’...Approaches to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...social impact. It's not simply about the primacy of the economic narrative. I think that's the double-edged sword of inward investment. It's great that we're making Star Wars and Marvel and other big, big movies in the UK. It keeps a lot of people in work, generates real jobs, but we also want to be creating the Billy Elliots, the Full Monty, the Trainspottings. I'm...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...social method to reduce the energy and CO2 intensity of travel is modal shift, i.e. moving journeys away from the energy-intensive modes and towards the more energy-frugal ones. For policy purposes, modes of transport can be ranked in a hierarchy, with walking and cycling at the top and air travel at the bottom (see Figure 7). [Described image] Figure 7: The low carbon...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...socialism and it’s got a certain kind of a voice. If I tried to do that in a story, it would have had to bustle more and be up and about and I’d have had to really create the man and the character and perhaps all the other men who have died in it, and I wouldn’t want to do that. So the great thing about poems is that you can say a lot in a very short space of time...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...social components required to 'solve' complex situations. Holistic thinking. This avoids losing the issues which are intimately associated with the connections of the situation. Simplifying by making more abstract. Some simplification is essential to make a problem tractable, but the simplification must not reduce the connectedness. By becoming more abstract the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs