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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...multiple actors. It consists of five phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. What differentiates human-centred design from other problem-solving approaches is its focus on understanding the perspective of the person who experiences a problem most acutely. (UNDP, n.d., Human-Centered Design ) This involves observing, using empathy to explore the problem...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...multiple societies coexisting and interacting with each other. These interactions are often between states, but they also involve other actors such as organisations, corporations, and even individuals who impact global affairs. Thus, IR is an academic discipline that aims to understand the interactions among societies, or what some scholars refer to as ‘societal...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...multiple influences in case studies describe the way that influences are interlinked in complex ways discuss the multiple factors involved in what makes us happy...Starting with psychology: 1 Studying people - The British Psychological Society defines psychology as: The scientific study of people, the mind and behaviour. (British Psychological Society, 2007) If you are...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...multiplication in the value being measured.] Activity 2 Caculating the difference in brightness of stars Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Two stars have magnitudes of +2.0 and +4.5 – a difference of 2.5 magnitudes. How many times brighter is the magnitude +2.0 star than the magnitude +4.5 star ? Answer The stars differ in brightness by a factor of 10. To work this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

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

...multiple traditions (Buddhas, crucifixes, African deities, etc.)? Discussion The first thing to note is that nearly everyone has some position regarding religion, even if that position is ‘I don’t have a religion’. Almost no-one answers, ‘I don’t know’, even if they think there is a lot they do not know. Nevertheless, the parameters of that identification vary...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...multiple causes, with different aspects of the organisation interacting with other aspects in ways that are hard to pin down. Often the problems tackled in systems thinking remain ill-defined – but the level of analysis is wider and recognises the richness of interaction across an organisation. Within your organisation or industry you may be a skilled professional –...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...multiplicity of different ways in which it may communicate with you, with your friends, with the nation, with reality, with authors, with all sorts of people. So people don’t make dates, as far as I understand it, they don’t make dates with a thing and watch it with any degree of dedication, and so making a 13-hour series, as we did on BBC 2, becomes a much more...
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Video 40 mins
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...multiple organ failure, resulting in death. Not all bacteria produce spores, but C. difficile does. Why might this be a problem in treating it? The spores produced by the bacterium allow it to be spread around easily in the environment, including amongst staff and patients in hospitals. The spores also give C. difficile resistance to many extreme environmental conditions,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs