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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...central position. Only in the last few centuries have observations and experiments gradually led us to the humbling conclusion that our position in the wider Universe is unremarkable. This course will describe our position in the cosmos, zooming out into our solar system and to larger scales, and also zooming the other way into microscopic scales. Throughout the journey,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...central decision-making by formalised institutions – whereby policies are generated and implemented in a top-down manner – don't represent the reality of contemporary politics. Similarly, political, business and NGO figures find that the word ‘government’ captures neither reality nor their ambitions for new ways of debating and resolving questions. It is in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...central feature of Aristotle’s metaphysics fitted to a large extent with the new scientific era. This was an era underpinned, in the main, by a strong belief in rationalism, and in particular the ideas and methods pioneered by René Descartes, which would lead some jurists and judges, as Friedrich Hayek maintained, towards a belief in ‘constructivist rationalism which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...central group, despite the animated crowd around them, using light, space, line and gesture. The Adoration of the Magi is a highly ambitious painting, where Leonardo attempted to portray not only an intricate and crowded scene, but also delved into a study of human emotion. In this painting Leonardo displayed his interest in the complexity of human nature and anatomy. He...
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Article 30 mins
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...central role of specific cultural circumstances in the way human societies view and treat the body display knowledge of some diverging ancient and modern approaches to the body...The body in antiquity: 1 Why the body? - In many ways, human history is a history of bodies. Bodies attend parliaments and move to different regions; it is in human brains that ideas are...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...Central circle or blob (irregular enclosed boundary) for main topic you are going to focus on. Blobs for sub-topics (optional, depending on importance of sub-topics). Lines branching out from topic/sub-topics. Words to identify main topics and sub-topics within the blobs. Words where lines branch or at the ends of lines. Conventions and guidelines The form of a spray...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...central to recent debates about how criminology has – or needs to – determine its focus, and whether a different approach is needed. Traditional criminology has focused on the causes of crime, and on how crime patterns are measured, predicted or should be dealt with or reduced through policy measures. Over the last 50 years or so, though, critical perspectives have...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...central to our understanding of training and recovery. The video provides a nice summary of this and states that training provides a stimulus which overloads the body, and through recovery the body adapts and makes training gains (e.g. gets stronger). Recovery can therefore be seen to be an essential part of the process of adaptation to training. Training sessions can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs