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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...cast of characters, and invent a chronology of events, then they have to think through the implications of all this to tell a coherent story. Indeed, on White's own conception, ‘imagining’ means thinking of a possibility and ‘embroidering’ on it. But does this not involve, at least in some cases, supposing that this possibility obtains and exploring its...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...cast in Sheffield and becomes a local issue. I think the city centre was probably declining anyway and it had a very difficult physical form, a long, spread out physical form that made it hard to, for the planners to deal with when shops were closing. But to me that showed the links between, sort of, large scale economic change, something that looks quite similar across...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...cast in the role of the ‘teacher’, and the ‘shock generator’ was simply a simulator. The sounds (the moans and cries) that the participants heard were a recording played from the adjacent room. Importantly, however, the deception was so good that participants believed that they were actually administering shocks. So the study presented an ingenious way of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...cast by the upright barometer and by the tower and used the ratio so found to calculate the tower's height. The marketing person went to the Sexton and said ‘If you tell me the height of the tower, I will give you this barometer’. The story illustrates two important points – first that people and their viewpoints are part of the situations we normally have to deal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...cast of interesting individuals, Heroes and Heroines, Villains, Witches, Wizards and Vampires, all depending on our literary tastes. By putting on the shoes of another in a story we read, we can inhabit the lives of others, and learn something of our social world and the inner lives of others, without even setting foot outside our own front door. Strikingly, studies have...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...sands and deliver a teaching experience for them that not only doesn't map to the world that they live in, doesn't map to the jobs and prosperity we wish for them and their families for the generations ahead. Quite convincing, isn’t he? But how exactly does he do it? Would you like to be able to talk like Martin Bean, former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University? Over...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...sands of Egypt, you can immediately draw conclusions about the sorts of things people bought in Egypt, but you will find yourself immediately wanting to know who these people were: rich or poor, natives or foreign, and so on. Not even documentary sources are completely straightforward. A further, more general, issue relating to written sources follows on from these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...cast and won 63.6% of seats at Westminster. The combined number of votes for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats represented 47.5% of the total votes (over 4% more than Labour), yet between them they won 32.1% of the seats available at Westminster. In the 2001 election, Labour had 43% of the total vote whereas all the other parties had 57% – yet Labour maintained...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs