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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...De re publica) and ‘On Laws’ (De legibus), inspired by Plato’s similarly named Republic and Laws, along with a great deal of new technical vocabulary for expressing philosophical ideas which until that point could only be expressed satisfactorily in Greek. Much of this work took place in a short burst of productivity during the years 45 and 44 BCE. We can only...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...De Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru. HERNANDO DE SOTO: There is never enough money to alleviate poverty. There’s just not enough in the world. People will end up creating their own wealth the same way Europeans created their own wealth. Nobody came and aided you, you had to create it yourself. That’s the only sure way to do it. NARRATOR: Many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...de St Croix, 2011, p. 49–50). The young of this country are as passionate and idealistic as any before. Perhaps more passionate. They march against poverty, they set up online campaigns, they push their parents to recycle and they care deeply about climate change. But too many of our young people appear lost. Their lives lack shape or any sense of direction. So they...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...systems for managing change. You were introduced there to a distinction from De Laat and Simons (2002) between learning in social interactions (where the learning process happens within a social context, but the outcome is an individual one) and collective learning (where both the learning process and outcome take a social form). The PFMS heuristic was used to look at the ways in which you can orchestrate systemic ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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