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Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...cast list? Not just the central characters, but all those who would directly or indirectly play a significant part in the story. Step 3 Notions you drew on. You may well find this the most difficult bit of this activity, because so many of the ideas that inform how you see things and what you do seem so obvious that you don’t think about them. They may be habits and...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...cast upon each HCP to ensure that every person within its jurisdiction is granted the rights and freedoms set out in Section I of the Convention. Activity 3 helps you to revise the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. Activity 3: The articles of the European Convention on Human Rights Timing: 0 hours 20 minutes Drawing on your previous knowledge and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...casts shadows at the subtle edges of some of the individual lava flows that flooded this region [Figure 6] Figure 6 progressively more detailed views of the area where Apollo landed in July 1971[.] Top left: 200-km-wide area (Apollo 15 metric camera)[.] Top right: more detailed view of the central portion of Hadley Rille[.] The largest crater is 2 km in diameter, above...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...casting off of the constraints of a strictly legal definition of crime removes some of the geographical and historical contingency that has hitherto limited the concept of crime. Further, the notion of ‘social harm’ allows for a broadening of the criminological gaze to include considerations of human activities that cause serious damage to human and social life but...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...caste system in Jamaica and the pigmentocracy, which is the legacy of slavery, and arriving in England and discovering he was Black. Video 6 Adam Rutherford and Lurraine Jones Based on the ethnic group categories on the last census – Black/African/Caribbean/Black British – these individuals only make up 3.5% of the UK population. It may well be that you live in a part...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...aluminium salts, which created depots of antigen and greatly enhanced the levels of antibodies produced in response. Aluminium hydroxide is still added to some vaccines for use in humans, including the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids. Work in animals showed that emulsions containing killed mycobacteria were exceptionally good at producing strong immune responses to other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...sand, scrubby vegetation, bleak, wind-torn trees, and tattered dwellings’ are without precedent in the art of any other country. For Schama, the explanation for the development of this new type of painting, in which native scenes and habitats are depicted with great intimacy and feeling for locality, is to be found in Dutch patriotism and a ‘loyalty to the homely’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...sand’ means to try to ignore a problem, in the hope that it will eventually go away. This approach to avoiding trouble has become associated with ostriches. However, ostriches, as you may be aware, do not really do this – and nor should you. [An ostrich.] Instead, actively engage with the tutor or other representative from your institution, who has raised the matter...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs