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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...Conception: ‘The journey begins’ - To write about projects, we have to define what they are and describe how they arise. This course will concentrate on describing what a project is, and how it can arise as a part of a planning process, as a response to a changing environment, as a business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...concept is a useful 'hook' on which to hang some introductory ideas; for example, how the structure of a particular part of an animal - a bone or a limb, perhaps - relates to its function, but biologists worry that using the term might imply that something complex has to be designed. (If you work through the series of units, you'll appreciate why any such implication is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...concept of nexus - The concept of the nexus and its use in contemporary social science is something Kraftl uses to explore children’s experiences of environmental change in different places. By nexus, Kraftl means the relationships and interconnectedness between things and people. In the reading that follows in Activity 6 he uses the word nexus to emphasise the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...concept in policy making. For society to function effectively, laws and policies must have public support. It is desirable, therefore, to have some idea of what the public thinks about an issue before regulation is finalised. Consultation is based on establishing the nature of a socially collective view that we call ‘public opinion’. The main means of establishing...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...concept of stress in the 1930s, felt this was a very one-sided view – he regarded stress as ubiquitous and vitally important, calling it ‘the salt of life’ (Selye, 1978 [1956]). Selye distinguished two kinds of stress: Within the general concept of stress … we must differentiate between distress (from the Latin dis = bad, as in dissonance, disagreement), and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...concept of creativity having a purpose other than straightforward enjoyment. While reading is probably considered by most children to be simply for fun, adults have often regarded the activity as having a didactic or educational purpose for child readers. In the next activity, you’ll look at what children’s literature is traditionally considered to be for. [Described...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...concepts and definitions to help you understand the subject. You will investigate the Sun, which powers most of the renewable energy sources, then move on to discuss energy supply and demand, in the world and the UK, and then look briefly at the problem of climate change. Current European and UK targets for increasing the share of renewables in coming decades will also be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Concept, Theories and Policies’, in M. Lavoie and E. Stockhammer (eds) Wage-led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK (Advances in Labour Studies), pp. 13–39. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137357939_2. Lenin, V.I. (2015) ‘Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism’, in Conflict after the Cold war....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs