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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...family member and explore the differences. Understanding not just what those differences are but the reasons for them can be quite revealing. Recent research in the field of neuroscience has determined how we are judged not just for who we are but for how we are perceived by others. Lyons and O’Mara explain this process as follows. We make person judgements on the basis...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...family and friends; let them know you’ve decided to start learning French and they can help you when you practise what you’ve been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello, goodbye and some of the first phrases you might use when meeting a French speaker give your name and nationality use...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...family's wealth. My dad came from a working class background, but he was an entrepreneur. is an entrepreneur, and he set up a successful restaurant business. So, me and my brother grew up in sort of, relative privilege. And my kind of teenage rebellion was sort of, almost throwing that back in his face and kind of saying, why is it fair that we have these flash cars and...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...family of four producing 2 sacks a week? What is our basis of comparison? Rubbish per household, per person, per week, per month, per year? In the video, Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates how development in terms of average income and lifespan has changed over the last two hundred years. In Europe, the industrial revolution led to increasing income, followed by...
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Video 45 mins
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...families which reflects the way they produce sound: plucking or bowing (strings), blown (wind or brass) or struck (percussion, keyboards). The way an instrument is played can also impact upon tone colour, for example, the sound might begin and end very suddenly (detached or staccato) or there might be a smooth progression between different pitches (legato). Many...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...history, politics perhaps- is actually really interesting for all of us. When I came to the BFI, I was placed on the fifth floor in our building here in London, opposite the archive team. So we sat next to each other, which reminded you every day that what you're doing in terms of contemporary film development and production, and developing new talent, was at some point...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...history of these subjects. When studying surfaces we can proceed a long way with intuitive concepts, and the subject is often studied in that fashion. Today we may appeal to these intuitions, secure in the knowledge that the intuitively appealing theorems can be proved rigorously. Indeed, the precise definitions and rigorous proofs appearing in the literature frequently...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...family AAC-LC (low complexity) is the most widely used coding profile in this standard, and the default format for Apple’s iTunes. Since AAC involves many varied processes in analysing different types of audio signal, no single algorithm is able to meet the diverse set of requirements it must fulfil. Therefore AAC has integrated different applications into a single...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs