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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...perceptions of what shapes the world ‘beneficiaries’ inhabit. For example: Many development actors are quite blind to the significance of religious faith in others’ lives. Development actors often have a greatly exaggerated estimation of the importance of development projects in people’s lives and livelihoods...Week 1: What is a development intervention?: 2 The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...perception a ‘true’ universe in which the law of causality would be valid. But such speculation seems to us to be without value and meaningless, for physics must confine itself to the description of the relationship between perceptions.’ The relationship between perceptions, the relationship between observations. We can’t say anything about the world in itself, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...perceptions of the world. Consciously making the choice between these poles, and all the variants between, is an act of epistemological awareness. Later in the unit this theme will be explored more fully – the choice one makes has profound implications for one's ranges of thought and action. Of course, knowing most of what I'm aware of is actually generated within my...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...perception and reality’, Energy Policy, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1330–1337. National Bureau of Statistics China (2007) ‘China Statistical Yearbook’, NBSC, China Statistics Press, Beijing. Shi, D. (2007) ‘Regional differences in China’s energy efficiency and conservation potentials’, China and World Economy, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 96–115. Wu, F. (2018) Energy and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...perception of a march, waltz or disco dance. [This is a photograph of two people dancing the Tango] Figure 3 Dancers move to the metre of the music in specific ways. A couple competing in a Tango competition...Week 1: The element of rhythm: 3.1 Organising beats into two, three, four - This course has already established that the pulse consists of a regular pattern of...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...Perceptions of success and failure can change over the life of a system...Successful IT systems: 3.2 Criteria for judging success - To some extent, failure is a mirror image of success. A simple definition of failure is ‘something that has gone wrong, or not lived up to expectations’. Moving a little way beyond this simple statement, various types or categories of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...perceptions, purchase intentions at specific price levels, and how the £500 price tag compares to consumer expectations. The subsequent analysis of survey responses using statistical methods would provide evidence either supporting or refuting the alternative hypothesis. The outcomes of this hypothesis test could significantly influence Apple’s pricing strategy,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...perception of interaction with an animal and ‘red’ to the actual perception of the colour for the specific object? MOTHER: Where is the yellow one. Can you say ‘yellow’? That’s yellow, isn’t it? SPEAKER 5: [BABY TALK] GRANDMOTHER: That’s right, yeah. BARIS SERHAN: Learn ‘ball’. ROBOT: I like to learn. This is a ball. ANGELO CANGELOSI: In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs