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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...podcast, in which she draws attention to the threats lithium mining poses to local ecosystems. Cole, L. (2023) Who cares wins with Lily Cole – Sonia Ramos: walking for Chile’s Indigenous rights (part 2). Indigenous ways of knowing The following two pieces provide accessible and engaging introductions to the importance of thinking about knowledge and evidence outside...
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...podcast interview with Keviselie about the process of making the first map of Sápmi: Keviselie First, I thought about making as a lithograph. Liudmila What is that? Keviselie Lithograph is you draw and paint, and so on, on stones and then print it. But there is a limit in the number you can print, so I thought that would be too exclusive. I wanted to have it spread out....
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...mathematics. This course is not a comprehensive survey of this field. Rather, we have chosen a few key topics that will help you to think in broader ways about how you and others take decisions; we shall also introduce you to some themes in social science which have direct relevance to managerial decision making. In particular, we have chosen topics that illustrate how...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...mathematics, a function describes an expression or rule that defines a relationship between one variable and another, as is shown on the x and y axes of a graph. * Functional: Something working as it is meant to. Fit for purpose. The term functional is also used to describe an item or operation as practical or utilitarian, rather than attractive. * Geometry: The shape and...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Mathematics (STEM)’ identified ‘critical thinking’ as a key transferable STEM competency, among others. The emphasis relates to the notion that higher abilities such as critical thinking are behaviours and characteristics that employers value in the workplace. But this is not only common in the STEM sector. A Wall Street Journal publication in 2014 indicated that...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...mathematical background, I go through this full term course in one month. Without OLI, I could not ever try to achieve this. Candace Thille For the last 100 to 200 years, we’ve been using the same methods to try and develop and disseminate knowledge. Now, both with the development of the learning sciences and the development of the affordances of the technology and the...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...mathematics and Welsh or English. If A Levels are brought into the mix, then we add the scores of the A Levels on top of those GCSE scores. And in A Levels, so if we’re going to the traditional medical school course, two of those subjects must be science. If they’re not biology or chemistry, then biology or chemistry must have been taken at an AS Level. And when...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...mathematical models which explore an element of the product’s performance understand that there is rarely a unique solution to any design problem. Part of the skill of a designer is in finding a problem–solution pair, and the best compromise understand how models of the design process are formulated, and how they can be applied to understand the development of a...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs