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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...concept of moral economy. The second part links the Sulawesi archipelago to Norfolk, a county on the UK’s East Anglian coast, and explores the different meanings of liminality. Liminality is a term used to describe the places in between places, like intertidal zones, which are neither land nor sea. Coping on the Coast Part 1: moral economy In this first part, I am going...
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Video 15 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...concepts from across the Channel, like the French language, the Doomsday Book, and the duty-free Gauloises multipack. French was de rigueur for all official business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...concept of innovation and how it relates to discovery, invention and design, using a series of case studies...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: 2.1 Distinguishing terms: discovery - The word ‘innovation’ usually implies novelty and its practical use. But how can we be more specific? We first need to distinguish the term from three closely-related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...concept of happiness as something that even years ago could be classified as a psychiatric disorder (Bentall, 1992). It is abnormal (or disorder-like) in the sense that it is not commonly experienced as ordinary and everyday for the majority of people. There are, of course, dangers in extending the boundaries of abnormality ever further, and the absurdity of classifying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...concepts that are relevant to it recognise and explain how to identify some environmental issues that are of interest or concern and explain why recognise and explain what the authors of the course mean by a system, its boundary and environment...Introducing environmental decision making: 1.1 Approaches to decision making - Think about some of the decision-making...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...prompt you into awareness of what you were experiencing. It may be you discovered something new about yourself; your expectations of the unit; what you hope to gain from studying it; or about your capacity to succeed in it as a result. If not, don't worry. The point of the activity was raising awareness rather than discovery; and recording material that will be useful in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...concept central to all German historicism of the nineteenth century … The account of the artist and the works known as the biography of the artist has proven to be constitutive of itself in highly significant ways for art history writing. Perhaps this is because the genre mediates so well between the imaginary and the real, between the myth and the history, between the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...conceptions about learning a language and do this whilst challenging our own assumptions and conceptions about language learning. We've developed this unit for secondary MFL teachers at the beginning of their careers to help with all of these points of view. It looks at some key ideas and concepts to be used in an MFL classroom. It explores some ways in which target...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs