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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...perceptions and motivations, and the resulting human actions and inactions can all contribute to allowing fire the space and time to develop out of control (adapted from Pyne, 2012). By thinking about fires as a set of three entangled processes, Pyne highlights the interrelationships and dependencies that make wildfires the product of environment-society entanglements...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...perception of the organisation and its product offering by handling their call effectively and efficiently. Internal marketing aims to satisfy the needs of employees in their ability to undertake their job roles. Satisfied employees will be more able to offer a satisfactory service to existing and potential customers. Internal marketing, and consequently its contribution...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...perceptions - Elliot suggests the environmentalist borrows from the world of the arts, where a distinction is made between the value of the original and the value of a copy. In continuing to read Elliot’s article, there is one example you will need to know about: the Hetch-Hetchy valley. If you visited there today, you would see a lake that sits in a stunning setting...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...perceptions.’ ‘My grandmother – sewed the most exquisite, minute dolls' clothes from scraps of fabric, fur.’ Only one said ‘me’! About their own creativity they were hesitant – ‘Don't know.’ ‘Difficult question.’ I'm not a very creative person.’ ‘All seems very mundane.’ When pushed: ‘various dance productions’; ‘working with gymnasts who...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...perception? This free course, Who belongs to Glasgow?, uses images of Glasgow to explore this multifaceted concept...How is your image of a place influenced and changed? Does it depend on whether you are a resident or an outsider? How do government and tourism campaigns and stories in the media affect your perception? This free course, Who belongs to Glasgow?, uses images...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...perceptions of good judgement in terms of perpetuating behaviours. In recent years there has been a growing focus on the use of evidence-based approaches in various fields. Put simply, it is no longer enough merely to point to gut feeling, perception or intuition in order to justify decisions which can have significant long-term implications for individuals or societies....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...perceptions of Black hair still influence how Black people are treated today. Eunice shares some of their experiences in the following video. EUNICE OLUMIDE: For me, personally, in terms of natural hair movement, I was famously dropped from one of the biggest model agencies in the world at a really young age of 15, 16 because I refused to relax my natural hair. So, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...perceptions of a scientist that they feel and what the scientist would actually look like. Projects dealing with how they will be given a particular person to research and lookup and then present whether their findings were they the real ones to discover it or not. Debates I found to be quite a good way to do it because I could arrange a debate about whether it was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs