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Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, language, concepts and principles relating to plants, in particular the composition and properties of plants and the different ways in which plant products have been utilised by humans demonstrate an understanding of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand techniques for the financial appraisal of projects understand private and external costs of environmental impacts and their mitigation understand methods for assessing the economics of environmental impacts understand discounted cash flow (DCF) work with numerical data...Financial methods in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: present some basic theory of FEA introduce the general procedures that are necessary to carry out an analysis present basic information that is necessary for the safe use of FEA...Introduction to finite element analysis: 1 Finite element analysis - In this section we will introduce the finite element...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...learn English. That I am exceptionally proud of and something I wish we would do so much more of, so easy. Why rights issues are so complex… One of the reasons why I think people find it tricky to come up with clever rights solutions to broadcasts, when it would be so obvious that the rights one should be most careful of are the rights of the country that you’ve just...
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Video 40 mins
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...learn about Buddhism, Thai culture and Thai language. Their parents would come here to do chanting, meditate also, and even to have a chat with their friends and with their colleagues. Most visitors are Thai, and they are Buddhists. I thought most of them live in London, some of them may travel quite far – like two or three hours to the temple. I am proud of being a...
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Video 30 mins
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...learn about the ways in which John Maynard Keynes’s theories revolutionised the thinking about how economic crises appear and how the government can solve them. In doing so, you will start to build an economic model to explore Keynes’s ideas. Keynes’s thinking was very influential with economists and policymakers for several decades following the 1930s, but then...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify some of the environmental impacts of economic growth understand some concepts to more sustainably manage waste and resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste management habits...Waste management and environmentalism in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Advanced German: Language, culture and history
Languages

Advanced German: Language, culture and history

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate improved language skills; show an increased knowledge of German-speaking societies; demonstrate improved intercultural competence...Advanced German: Language, culture and history: Übung 1 - Die Entstehung und Funktion der verschiedenen Regionen Deutschlands – politisch wie auch...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs