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David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...concept was all about the planet and humans and the planet, so it’s completely steeped in its original concept and it doesn’t matter how much you throw out there the idea. Extending television programmes through new media I think every big project has an outreach programme now with it and the investment in that and the reach it actually has I think is incredibly...
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Video 30 mins
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...concepts help us organise and think about particular examples of a phenomenon. Concepts can be combined together to generate theories which are general frameworks for providing explanations of phenomena. [Figure 1.1] But how do we begin to examine and evaluate the quality of those concepts, theories and explanations? From a discussion of this question it follows that:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...concept (the use of a research diary is discussed in Section 2). This helps you to understand the debates that underpinned your research and the struggles with critical decisions that you took along the way; in turn, it enables you to communicate this when writing your research project. It also demonstrates the logic of what has been done and how it has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...concept; later versions may record biometric data or be responsive to gestures. A previous iteration, Circadia, was much larger, about the size of a bar of soap; initially, after getting the thing implanted in his arm, Cannon complained of panic attacks, and when the battery stopped working, he had it removed. In a procedure that made implanting magnets look like...
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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...concept of culture impacts on educational leadership practice critically reflect on the relationship between external context and culture at societal and local levels evaluate how external context and culture influences educational change in an organisation critically reflect on the relationship between policy and practice...Leadership: external context and culture: 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...concepts, beginning with the idea that everything that you can see is made of building blocks called atoms. This leads on to a look at the chemical elements and how they are arranged in the Periodic Table, enabling chemists to rationalise patterns in their chemical and physical behaviour. Next you will consider chemical reactions, specifically how atoms combine with other...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...concepts to find a single English word for. You might assume that pietas means ‘piety’, and it’s true that this English word derives from the Latin. But while pietas certainly does involve respect for the gods and religious observation, it’s a much broader concept than English ‘piety’. Activity 1 Here is the definition of pietas given in the Pocket Oxford...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...concepts associated with complex situations analyse some links between variables in development intervention identify initial strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with development intervention...Diagramming for development 1: Bounding realities: 1 Case study: the Working for Water Programme - Before we look at the diagrams, take a moment to read...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs