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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...accountability, transparency, for example – though they are expressed in different ways in different contexts. It is possible that your choice reflected an institution’s significance not only in shaping how development takes place, but also in framing how development is conceptualised. It is particularly important to recognise that there are institutions which govern...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...accounts for about 1.4 litres of the 4 litres of crude oil each person in the author's one car household might be expected to consume each day. Coincidentally the author's calculations imply that in his household his car consumes the same amount of crude oil each day (4.1 litres) as the average UK citizen. Your calculations may give a quite different figure, depending on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...accountable in terms of their use of theory. What are the expectations of you about why, how and when theory should inform your research? Activity 7 Theory – practice links Timing: Allow approximately 1 hour 30 minutes Go to the link below to review the Teaching and Learning Research Briefing No. 80, ‘Quality criteria for the assessment of education research in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...account of the movement in 1808. Second, he began purposefully to promote moral and spiritual reform at home, initially through obtaining the issue of a royal proclamation ‘for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue’...Wilberforce: 1.4 Wilberforce in Parliament - When Wilberforce made his first major speech against the slave trade in the House of Commons in April 1789,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...account development – account-based marketing market and customer insight. (Source: Dibb et al., 2012, p. 632) This free course is an adapted extract from an Open University course BB844 Marketing in the 21st century...Marketing in the 21st century: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate whether marketing is a process or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...account for more of the variance in attachment security. So maybe not misreading your baby’s internal state is more important than reading your baby’s internal states and they both seem to make independent contributions to attachment security. John Oates So just to clarify then it’s the higher the proportion of non-attuned comments, the less likely is it that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...account of Celia Fiennes’ visit to Chesterfield in 1698 and make some notes about the evidence of rural and urban landscapes which it provides. Tip: Consider how you might read this from an environment history point of view. Here we Entred Darbyshire and went to Chesterffield 6 mile, and Came by ye Coale mines where they were digging. They make their mines at ye...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...account and that's part of the projections and it makes it very, very complicated. And this is of course an example ... RH: When you say complicated, don't you mean impossible? RT: well, it's not impossible ... RH: You're an economist, of course you have to believe in the figures. Some other people looking at the figures will say, 'Well frankly, we don't know...
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