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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...English Dictionary defines engineering as: The branch of science and technology concerned with the development and modification of engines (in various senses), machines, structures, or other complicated systems and processes using specialized knowledge or skills, typically for public or commercial use; the profession of an engineer. Frequently with distinguishing word:...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...English. Rather than speak about statements and propositions, this will speak about claims. At the heart of any argument sits a main claim. A claim expresses that something is the case or should be the case. Assume that you have been asked to discuss the claim ‘Eating carrots improves your eyesight’. That’s going to be the main claim, the claim you will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...English Lake District, productivity and sediment input increased in some lakes when vegetation was cleared by Neolithic humans around 5000 years ago, and again when widespread deforestation occurred 2000 years ago. However the greatest increases in productivity, sediment levels and levels of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, have occurred since 1930. Figure 1.11 shows the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...English Gothic, though less usual in continental Europe, it also occurs in Asian architecture. Deborah Howard has argued that ‘the intention behind the introduction of the ogee arch and its adoption as a trademark by the Venetian merchant class was to allude to a mental image of the Orient’14 – a ‘mental image’ composed out of myriad individual memories of trade...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...English translation 1878) is based largely on artists' ‘Lives’ (though it is thematic rather than biographical in form). In this context, according to Soussloff, it is no wonder that Burckhardt is able to celebrate ‘The Development of the Individual’ as one of his sections. Burckhardt's characterization of the civilization of the Renaissance in Italy relied on...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...English language, the UK is clearly a model on how not to do it. If you look at the last 20 years or so of UK climate policy, a few things have happened. One thing that has not happened is that emissions have fallen in any measurable or substantive way. But what has happened is that most people got a little bit poorer because energy's more expensive, or a little bit...
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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...English spelling). Protons, atoms and molecules are too small to be measured in this way. virus bacteria red blood cell plant cell flea ladybird human being the Earth star solar system galaxy universe (largest) Learning about these things as separate topics means children don’t get a sense of the size of things that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or are so large that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...English word ‘father’. A line over a ‘u’ or over an ‘i’, as in ‘tanpūra’ or ‘sthāyī’, respectively, indicates that the vowel is given a longer duration. A mark over an ‘s’, as in ‘bandiś’, indicates that the letter is to be pronounced as ‘sh’. Note that when this course quotes from an external source, that source’s preferred way...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs