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Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...think critically and to offer creative solutions for problems that no-one has yet considered. Is education fit for the future in your context? What do you think the purpose of education should be? How should it respond to global drivers of change? In this free course you'll reflect on possible purposes for education. You'll then look to the future to think about what...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...think of another sector inside an economy which might be included in the circular flow diagram to make this a more realistic model of the economy? What additional flows would this new sector generate? Answer To make our model of the economy more realistic a government sector could be included. Like households, the government spends money on goods and services. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...think. But at the end of the day, we kind of need labels to kind of-- so that we can know what people's needs are. TERRY If you're on benefits, you need some sort of description of what help you need. CHARLENE You know, we're just human beings trying to get on with our lives, you know? So why put a label on it, and make us feel 10 times worse with a label? Video 1 In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...system with four massive bombs. Julie Nicholson I think what everyone wanted was something that represented the 52 individuals but also expressed something about the collective nature, and that it would be something that stood as … as a thing of beauty, a work of art. Christopher Wilk We don’t regard ourselves as the sole source of authority. It used to be that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...think means dog’s body. And I started in radio with someone called Tony Soper who made a film about geese up in Scotland and then I went into television in a small way with Look with Sir Peter Scott and the famous Heinz Sielmann Becker film which was a… I didn’t used to call it the watercooler moment, but people talked about the fact that you could see inside a...
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Video 30 mins
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...systems. Finite element analysis (FEA) is an indispensable software tool in engineering design, and indeed in many other fields of science and technology. In this course you will be introduced to the essence of FEA; what is it and why do we carry out FEA? As an example of its use, we will look briefly at the case of finite element analysis of the tub of a racing car....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...systems, processes, expectations, if changed, could open up new ways of thinking and doing. Reading about these challenges may make you feel that being too close to the inquiry focus, being too invested in processes and systems, or being socialised into the practices and languages of your context, might make dreaming or imagining difficult. But, it is precisely because...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs