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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...laws and simplifications describing how ice flows and slides, the map of the bedrock beneath the ice sheet, and when instability might be triggered in each region under [a] mid-high climate scenario…. This gave us a range of model predictions for sea level rise: three thousand possible futures fanning out from today. Edwards (2015) If you are interested, you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...laws, regulations, policies and programmes. In your context, your home, neighbourhood, office or organisation are broadly seen as part of our environment. In your own practice and in the pedagogical spaces you create, addressing questions related to climate and environmental injustice is an important aspect of climate education. It’s critical both for ensuring everyone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...laws of geometry and of the precision of a clear contour that had been so important in the works of Poussin and other sources for Neoclassicism. Also, in this case the style suits the subject: what better way to represent a collapsing regime than by means of a compositional technique that encapsulates collapse? The ‘orgy’ of colour is also appropriate to the subject,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...law is one source of coercive pressure, but so too for example, is the knowledge that you will get promoted only if you act in ways which fit accepted ways of doing things in your organisation. Imitation refers to the pressures to copy what others do. The world is complicated and finding the best-possible solution is often difficult. One way of dealing with this...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...Scots. In dress, in the manner of their outward life, and in good morals, .. these come behind the householding Scots.’ Ged a rinn e soilleir, mar a rinn Goill eile na latha, nach robh spèis mhòr sam bith aige do na Gàidheil, sgrìobh e ‘most of us spoke Irish a short time ago’. Cha do chuir na rìghrean an cùil ri dualchas nan Gàidheal, ge-tà. Mar eisimpleir...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...laws. Many people would argue that the sort of personal data held by democratic states is necessary for effective law enforcement, the maintenance of public health and, more generally, to manage the complexities of modern society. Others, however, may express reservations that the huge amount of information held by the state poses a threat to individual freedom and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...laws that explain the occurrence of particular types of events in particular types of circumstance – for example, by identifying the mechanisms involved. Scientific knowledge, in contrast to everyday knowledge, was viewed as value-free and, therefore, objective. Science looks for relationships between variables to explore and explain natural phenomena. In particular,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...law of diminishing marginal utility. It applies to most goods and services consumed; and it even applies to the income used to buy goods and services, as illustrated in Figure 7. [A graph relating utility (on the vertical axis) to income (on the horizontal axis). There are two functions plotted: marginal utility and total utility. Marginal utility is a negatively sloped...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs