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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...social welfare; I think its funding should come from taxation. I feel I am intruding on people's privacy. I know it sounds funny, but I think we ought to be able to manage on what we've got already. I don't like rich people – they make me feel angry and uncomfortable; and I don't think we should ask poor people. It's just begging on a large scale and I find it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...interact with those people. But overall, if we, as much as we can, practise respect, honesty, fairness, and care throughout the process of conducting research, then our research will be ethical. [MUSIC PLAYING] Video 2 Why is research ethics so important? Comment In the video, Helen Kara summarises the outcome of a worldwide research project, the Trust project. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...interacting gravitationally with known initial positions and velocities, can you predict their individual motions? Simply put, can you determine their positions and velocities at any time of your choosing? (The way the problem is modelled, the only forces acting on the bodies are the forces of gravity. All other forces, such as those generated by solar winds, are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...presidential candidate since Eugene Debs in the early twentieth century, he openly describes himself as a democratic socialist whose ideal societies are to be found today in the social democracies of Scandinavia. Bernie Sanders He is not exactly a Trotsky or a Lenin, but is a battle-scarred old warrior who has consistently fought for his entire political life...
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Article 5 mins
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...social media is probably the way forward, not main broadcasters. There’ll always be beautiful films about animals we can look at from afar, but I’m sure that if change is going to come it’s not going to come through the main broadcasters, because they're just too cumbersome and too heavy, it’s going to come through social media where you actually feel you can make...
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Video 20 mins
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...Socially orientated, sensitive and responsive; sometimes indecisive Completer/Finisher Makes sure that all tasks are finished off completely Painstaking, orderly, conscientious; can be anxious and find it difficult to ‘let go’ (Source: adapted from Belbin, 1981) It is important to bear in mind that Belbin's roles are not something anyone is born into. They do not mean...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...interactive quizzes. Completing the end-of-week quizzes will provide you an opportunity to earn a badge to demonstrate your new skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude Skills Training (GICAST) has several learning outcomes, describing what we hope you will achieve by the end of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...interact. One method is to consider how much the horizontal and vertical components of the vectors interact, as illustrated in Figure 30. There are four possible combinations to consider: horizontal to horizontal, horizontal to vertical, vertical to horizontal, and vertical to vertical. [Described image] Figure 30 Interacting component vectors in the scalar product of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs