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Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...students, be the same person. Generally, however, these will be different people or groups of people. There are, of course, other groups involved. For example, makers ensure that what is being constructed is done so in appropriate ways. Market researchers may also be engaged to ask questions about the potential design. In the past, the role of the designer was reasonably...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...become familiar with five complete movements of Mozart's piano sonatas, as well as shorter extracts from some of his other sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...become Captain aboard the Blue Marlin [The world’s largest transporter vessel at the time of original publication]. This is not to say that regular engineers cannot become top rate analysts without a PhD. Some analysts have a Masters degree, but most have no more than a bachelor’s degree. The key to good analyses is knowledge of the limitations of the method and an...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...becomes available – this is a common reason for forming a partnership. A partnership is also a means of sharing the risks and management of the business. In the eyes of the law, the partners of a general partnership: are agents of the business, which allows the partners to manage the business and enter into contracts on behalf of the business have joint and several...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...become convinced myself that it was basically the right thing to do and that the previous 100 years had been a series of failed attempts to do devolution. And it was important that we succeeded otherwise I could see a situation, particularly in Scotland, where the support for independence would be unstoppable. And I still think it was basically necessary to prevent that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...becomes clear that there is no simple prescription for being a good leader; yet there are some characteristics that most effective leaders have in common...Groups and teamwork: 2.1 What is a group? - Our tendency to form groups is a pervasive aspect of organisational life. As well as formal groups, committees and teams, there are informal groups, cliques and cabals....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...become functional ciphers merely, as they are in white papers and business letters, they lose their ‘ghosts’ – the rich aura that has grown about them from the start, and grows infinitesimally richer every time they are spoken. They lose more; they lose their ‘kernel’, the sheer sensuous relish of utterance… We are in danger of contenting ourselves with husks....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...become hugely successful. At an average weight of about 1 kg, the rats are too light to set off mines. They can scurry across and search 200 square metres of ground in 20 minutes, compared with 50 square metres per day for a person using a metal detector. Apopo, the organisation Weetjens founded, dispatches trained rats to areas of land known or suspected to be mined (but...
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Article 5 mins