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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...communication was uncertainty. And we have spent hours, days and weeks to assess very carefully the uncertainty. This time around we even produced at the beginning of the assessment cycle a document that laid out how uncertainty is expressed across the three working groups so that we all speak on the same terms when we speak about uncertainty and try to quantify and...
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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...communication technologies...Supporting children and young people's wellbeing: 1 Wellbeing in today’s society - During the last decade a number of media reports, newspaper articles and debates on social media have shared alarming statistics, which suggest that children and young people in the United Kingdom are increasingly unhappy and that their wellbeing is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...communicate complex information simply and quickly. Activity 1 Try to think of three examples of diagrams you see regularly in your home. Write down what they represent to you. Say what you use them for. DiscussionHere are my responses The first thing I had to hand was a ‘do it yourself’ (DIY) manual (being used a lot because I have just moved into a new house). This...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...communicative competence, to highlight that using language successfully is not only about knowing the rules of syntax, morphology and phonology. A language user must also know how to use and when to use utterances appropriately, thereby acknowledging the sociocultural and communicative aspects of language (Hymes, 1966). Unlike Vygotsky, Hymes is more often described as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and outlines the important relationship between philosophical thinking and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...community-owned wind farm that began operations in the south of England in 2008. [SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING] [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING] [TURBINE SPINNING] [MUSIC PLAYING] LIZ ROTHSCHILD Ready? GIRL Whoo! LIZ ROTHSCHILD What’s really exciting is when we come up here with actually adults and children. The first word you hear is ‘Wow!’ [TURBINE SPINNING] ADAM TWINE So here,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...communities in Wales in the nineteenth century, and the racism they combatted into the 1900s the experience of Algerian Muslim French army veterans, who faced racism in France after Algerian independence in the 1960s. These examples cover a wide geographical scope, over a time span of about 200 years. The aims of the course are: to introduce you to stories of the past...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...communications network enables us to use a mobile phone in the depths of Siberia or take a satellite telephone to Antarctica (Figure 3), watch TV in the middle of the Atlantic, do our banking on the train, or play games with a person on the other side of the world. It is one of the greatest technological achievements of the last 30 years and it is so reliable, so...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs