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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...become the driving force in the generation of a whole host of global challenges. It is also the basis for his account of how the crisis tendencies of capitalist urban development open up opportunities for all sorts of political action to challenge and transform established patterns of urban development. Activity 2 In his essay on The right to the city, Harvey outlines how...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Working in teams Badge icon
Money & Business

Working in teams

...students, finding a significant positive effect on creative performance. Job satisfaction – Bragadottir et al. (2023) surveyed nursing staff across Iceland, receiving 567 survey responses. Their findings showed a significant relationship between teamwork and job satisfaction in medical settings, and their conclusion cites research from the US and Singapore that...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...students, 120 said that they mainly use a laptop in their studies rather than a desktop computer. What percentage of students use a laptop? On a production line for computer monitors, 3 out of 750 monitors are faulty. What percentage of monitors are faulty? Answer 420 / 700×100=60 So 60% of the people surveyed use the internet for general browsing. 120 / 320×100=37.5 So...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...become increasingly interlinked in recent years. We need only to think of an Olympic team – which used to be mostly made up of athletes but now is likely to include a squad of almost equal size comprising non-athletic staff such as specialist coaches, trainers, sports psychologists and nutritionists – to realise how science is now a major part of sport. Elite athletes...
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...becoming an effective and empathetic leader with our free course, Approaching leadership with care. Delve into the core concepts of leadership by exploring the significance of empathy, compassion, and understanding when leading others and yourself. This course is designed to help you define your leadership style, cultivate a caring approach, and enhance your overall...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...students who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that studying a classical language involves. This course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin. Along the way, you will learn some Latin words, master the pronunciation of Latin and explore...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...students, and two schoolkids? Both probably would be prosecuted, but there might be considerable differences in sentencing if magistrates perceived one case as student high jinks and the other as reprehensible juvenile delinquency. In the case of the chemical discharge, we assumed that most of the time it goes unobserved. Even if most of us had seen such a discharge,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...becomes infected. Here a distinction is made between the infectious disease caused by a particular agent and the disease symptoms. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion in common parlance about different diseases. Often, people say that they have ‘a bit of flu’ when they have an infection with some other virus, or a bacterium that produces flu-like symptoms. Such...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs