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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...children, might have compared to those of the typical male Grand Tourist. In this free course, you’ll have the opportunity to explore some of these questions, and to gain an introduction to the Grand Tour. The course also provides a snapshot of how our study of this historical and cultural phenomenon can be conducted through different disciplines in the Arts and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...research centres, government agencies and potentially firms. Knowledge ecosystems create value not only by generating new knowledge but also through its dissemination. This means that the aggregate/joint value of knowledge ecosystems might not be directly commercially exploited. It can, however, benefit all actors in the ecosystem, or even actors beyond this specific...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...Research Centre at Ispra, Italy, has produced PVGIS (PV Geographical Information System), an online tool giving solar radiation data and estimated PV outputs for Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. Users can input the geographic location, type of module, its power rating, array orientation etc., and the software will calculate the expected monthly and annual energy yield...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...children and communicating to the class teacher which were the exceptional children that he or she had to look out for over the coming year. A year later the inspector returned to the schools in the trial and discovered that the children identified in the earlier tests had indeed excelled and were regarded as being exceptionally able by the teachers involved. However the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...Children of God, pictured with their Jesus Bus, spreading The Gospel in Brighton, 1971. Activity 2 Timing: Allow approximately 25 minutes How might Figures 1, 2 and 3 display three aspects of changes in religion during the Sixties? Discussion The first is of the demolition of a church building in Chesterfield, England, around 1968. The picture is evidence of a wider...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...researches here in Oxford to do so. Wildlife: my first memories As a child growing up in Wiltshire I spent a lot of time in the countryside. I was very lucky because my grandmother owned a lake and I was able to build a raft to float on this lake. I didn’t want to catch the fish; I wanted to watch them, I don’t know why that happened but I had this raft and I would...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...research and policies tend to be based on the assumption that people are rational and that their behaviours therefore reflect what they know about what is real. Communication policies aimed at encouraging change towards more sustainable behaviour have therefore tended to follow an information-deficit model whereby it has been assumed that given the facts, people will act...
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Article 5 mins
What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...research efforts. There are several salient, but as yet unanswered, questions. Is the association with microcephaly real, or is the Brazilian microcephaly spike just a parallel epidemic caused by something else? Why was microcephaly not reported in the Pacific island outbreaks? If the microcephaly association is proved, what does this mean for affected communities? Can...
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Video 5 mins