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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...et al., 2011; Toegel and Barsoux, 2012) have discussed these five broad dimensions. Openness to experience: this dimension includes people’s tendency to appreciate art; to be intellectually curious, creative or imaginative; to pursue novelty; or to prefer change over stability. High openness to experience can also be an indicator of a lack of focus and consistency. Low...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...et tu, Brūte? (‘You too, Brutus?’)...Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: 6 Reading Latin - Learning a language inevitably involves learning the meanings of individual words. You will be familiar with this process if you have studied a foreign language before. Perhaps you have created flash cards or drawn up lists of those troublesome words that, for some reason,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...et al, 2014). High-level STEM skills are considered to be of key importance to the performance of the UK economy across the board – in terms of jobs, productivity, innovation and global competitiveness. Ensuring that businesses have access to these skills is particularly critical to the process of innovation and will therefore be increasingly important to the UK’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...et de voir á ce que l’article soit libre de tout vice ou défectuosité pouvant nuire á la santé. Il s’agissait en l’occurrence de la consommation d’une bouteille de soda contenant un escargot. The case report is in French because, whilst Quebec is in Canada, the only official language is French. This is the translated text: The court thinks it worth mentioning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...et d’histoire, Rochefort; Plate 3 Jacques-Louis David, 'Andromache mourning Hector', 1783, oil on canvas, 275 x 203 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library; Plate 4 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 'The Apotheosis of Homer', 1827, 152 x 203 cm, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library; Plate 5 Jacques-Louis David, 'The Lictors...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...et al., 2016) suggests that learners also need to look for structure. The next two activities in this section exemplify each approach. In the first approach, the intention is for learners to observe a pattern of change across a sequence of examples by asking ‘What is the same and what is different?’ Activity 5 Looking for changes Timing: Allow 10 minutes Each term of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...et al., 2015) Article 2 argues that ‘cute shapes the internet’ (with particular reference to Grumpy Cat). The author uses the Allen-Alchian theorem, or the ‘third law of demand’ to model quality on the internet. The article makes some assumptions, which may make sense to those immersed in the field of economics, but are open to question from other perspectives. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...et al., 2013). Ironically, many REE are used for so-called ‘cleantech’ applications such as renewable energy or green transportation, moving us away from an economy driven by energy with a high carbon footprint, and because of this they are thought of as green. However, we have seen in this section that current REE production is a big environmental pollutant, but with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs