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Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...de-risking, to avoiding a ‘sunk cost fallacy,’ to locking in progress and value early and often. There are three key measures: Lead Time is the time from starting work on an item of value to getting it into the hands of a customer. Throughput is the count of items of value delivered into the hands of a customer in a time period. As lead time comes down, throughput...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...de la Paz. United Nations via Flickr: the original can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/3839892431 [Details correct as of 17 November 2011] Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...de Gaulle in France, who was also faced with the challenge of African nationalism, used a very different metaphor, and that’s because he believed that African nationalism could be stopped. And he used the metaphor of the insurgents as vermin. And so what do we do with vermin? We exterminate vermin. Another really powerful rhetorical device is the technique of contrast...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...According to the football international governing body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) statistics the FIFA World Cup 2010 was viewed by around 46% of the world’s population. We can also consider the role of government in its relationship to sport including football. In this context, it is worth noting the philosophy of FIFA, and the environment for mega sports events created by governments ......
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...de/wp-content/uploads/130912-Recent-Facts-PV-Germany.pdf. Green, M. A., Hishikawa, Y., Warta, W., Dunlop, E. D., Levi, D. H., Hohl-Ebinger, J. and Ho-Baillie, A. W. H. (2017) ‘Solar cell efficiency tables (version 50)’, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 668–676. Huld, T., Müller, R. and Gambardella, A. (2012) ‘A new solar...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...de Triomphe. [Described image] Figure 2 The unveiling of the cenotaph in Whitehall, 1920. In London, a cenotaph – which literally means ‘empty tomb’ – was also established in 1919. This was initially a temporary structure, but due to its popularity a permanent tomb was built and unveiled in 1920. Symbolically significant sites such as these, along with countless...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...de l'ame: on obsessive and harmonious passion’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 85, no. 4, p. 756...Session 3: Exploring identity and overtraining: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...de-stigmatise the menopause, raise awareness of its impact and remove the embarrassment often experienced when people talk about it (Newson, 2019)...Session 1: What are we are talking about?: 5 Factors affecting the severity of the menopause - On average the menopause starts aged 51; however, the perimenopause that is described as ‘the change before the change’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs