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Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...Central America (e.g. in Honduras) have challenged logging companies through the legal process. In Northern Canada, the government recently re-established Inuit place names and thereby ‘redrew the map’, representing a major social and cultural development. Maps are also used to show the incidence and spread of pollution or disease, often in relation to international...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...central concept in understanding different styles of school leadership. TEACHER What's the assumption in this diagram here? MAN I think societal culture is best defined by saying that it's an enduring set of values, beliefs, practises, that distinguishes one group of people from another group of people. And there are various definitions, by the way. And it's a contested...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...centrally important. The contrasting position, dominant in many economic formulations of organizational action, depicts individuals acting alone in a strictly self-interested objective fashion and driven by pessimistic assumptions about other individual actors. …That is, in transaction cost economics, actors lie in negotiations, cheat on any deals if it is profitable to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...central importance to the personal academic support given to students; and working collaboratively with others to extend and enrich lifelong learning open to ideas – developing a vibrant academic community that reflects and supports the diversity of intellectual interests of all our students and staff, and that is dedicated to the advancement and sharing of knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...central role in Greek than English. Session 8 looks back upon the course, ties up some loose ends, and looks ahead, asking what it is like to study Greek in greater depth. Along the way you will meet examples of Greek from the ancient world, including: a snippet from a Platonic dialogue, the genealogy of a Spartan king, a dedication by Alexander the Great from a temple in...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...central skill of creating characters...This free course, Start writing fiction: characters and stories, helps you to get started with your own fiction writing. It provides a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on the central skill of creating characters. You will listen to established writers talk about how they started writing and consider the rituals of writing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...central part of the cluster. In the outer part of the cluster the COAST image is more detailed, showing more of the fainter stars than Stellarium. If you are using a tablet or mobile phone you may see fewer than nine stars.] Now look at the COAST image and try to decide which of your nine sample stars is the brightest and which is the faintest. Make a note of these. How...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Système international d’unités (international system of units) known as SI. The SI unit of length, for example, is the metre (m), and the SI unit for time is the second (s). Example: What is 1000 metres in SI form? The prefix for one ‘thousand’ is ‘kilo’, so the answer is one kilometre (1 km in shortened form). One thousand metres, one kilometre and 1 km are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs