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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...family member to answer an assignment question for them because they have expertise in this area and so will get better marks than if the student tries to do it themselves. This is still plagiarism, but it is also intentional fraud. A student comes across the ‘right answer’ to part of their assignment on a website, and cuts and pastes this into their assignment. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...history to the will of God. The reality, of course, is that equity, like law generally, reflects or embodies a complex of human reasons, desires and needs, and this remains very much the case in the contemporary capitalist context. Figure 4 Plato (427–347 BCE), Greek philosopher...Equity – law and idea: 2 Equity at the dawn of modernity - Figure 5 Divine love and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...family and on and on and on, have begun divesting. At the same time, we’re also working very hard against any of the big expansion plans of the fossil fuel industry; trying to, kind of, freeze their new infrastructures. So whether the fight’s about the tar sands in Alberta and the Keystone Pipeline, or about the Galilee Basin in Australia and the plans by the groups...
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Audio 5 mins
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...history or current affairs as happening ‘out there’, and then channelled by various media to be eventually received or ‘consumed’ by the public. Yet, things may not be this straightforward. Shortly, you will watch a short video clip reporting a very powerful incident at the BBC Proms in 2011 when publics engaged with politics in a very active and forceful way by...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...history (the equity market collapsed under hyperinflation in the 1920s), and regulations may not allow insurance companies or pension funds in certain countries to buy equities at all. Activity 3 Pension fund reading Timing: Allow around 30 minutes for the reading and activity below. The OECD document ‘Pensions at a glance 2013’ shows that bonds and equities combined...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...family and friends; let them know you’ve decided to start learning Italian and maybe they can help you or leave you in peace when you need to study. Now that you know what’s in store for you, you are ready to get started. Buon lavoro!...Introduction: Open Centre for Languages and Cultures - This course has been developed from extract parts of LGXI001 - Beginners...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...family resemblance. Figure 1 is a concept map of the way I am viewing these processes. (Klein, 1998, pp. 289– 90) Activity 13 Sources of power Take some time to look at the diagram in Figure 1. (a) Choose one of Klein’s ‘sources of power’ as shown in Figure 1. Write a short account related to your own experience to indicate how you think it could work as a source...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...history of Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer disease...Week 2: What happens to the food we eat?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Audrey Brown and Surinder Ghatoray. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs