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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation...Learn about trust in the organisational context. This free course, Developing high trust work relationships, introduces the concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation....Developing high trust work relationships: Introduction - Trust has become an important...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...concept of decolonising computing. Transcript In offering an answer to the question of what it might mean to decolonise computing, I will begin by distinguishing my own approach from that of others, including those who participated in a workshop that convened in 2016 in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University featuring scholars Simone...
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Video 15 mins
Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...de Montaigne noted that his local river, the Dordogne, had in twenty years eroded its right bank and taken over so much land that the foundations of houses were destroyed. It is later in the same essay that Montaigne reflected on the Americas, unknown to Europe until Christopher Columbus’s landing there in 1492, and criticised the tendency to judge other cultures...
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Article 10 mins
Metric spaces and continuity
Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...concept allows us to generalise the notion of continuity. Section 2 develops the idea of sequences and convergence in metric spaces. Section 3 builds on the ideas from the first two sections to formulate a definition of continuity for functions between metric spaces...This free course contains an introduction to metric spaces and continuity. The key idea is to use three...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Univariate continuous distribution theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Univariate continuous distribution theory

...concept of expectation or expected value, the familiar notion of the mean, also known as the first moment, two general definitions of moments, variance, random variables linked by linear transformation and finally, how to deal with moments all in one go, using the moment generating function...This free course looks at a number of the basic properties of statistical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...concepts in physics, chemistry, biology and life-sciences, and Earth and environmental sciences. Across these multiple disciplines you will meet time scales that include ages, durations and rates, and size scales including distances in three dimensions, which underpin areas and volumes...Scale – dealing with the miniscule to the massive, over milliseconds to millennia...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt gender-stereotyped behaviors (e.g., preferring colors like pink or blue) until the age of two or three. A few years later, their concept of gender becomes quite rigid, and although it becomes more relaxed by middle childhood, even adults have trouble...
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Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...concepts, and their connection with learning design, digital innovation and learning analytics. The course, and the innovative teaching tricky topic process which it explores, will be useful for trainee or experienced teachers in schools, colleges and universities, who need to develop their skills in teaching difficult knowledge. It will also be useful for career...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs