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Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...physical platform (online marketplace). For example, a firm or an organisation organising a ‘makers market’ where independent producers of woodcraft, pottery, food and clothing bring their stalls and sell to end consumers, including each other. Animation 3 shows how the matchmaking business model works. Animation 3 Matchmaking business model In recent times, there...
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...physical skills. For example, we need to be able to learn how to create a variety of kinds of written communication, or how to present complex information in a clear diagram, or to decide how a team will structure its work, and so on. No amount of explanation of how to compose a clear technical report, for example, would provide convincing proof that we could actually...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...physically disabled, he’d got mental disabilities as well LAUREN [01.01] Will be…in the summer then? GUY Well, if it goes off….It’ll be next summer???????? BOY [01.07] I can’t believe you’re going out with someone with a baby though ANOTHER I know………how old, how old is she? NIKITA [01.18] Sit next to me come on BOY Yes TINA [01.29] Before you go home...
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...physical assets, a patent is classified as an intangible (non-physical) asset. Receivables or debtors refers to the total money owed to a business by credit customers and is thus an asset. Inventory are goods for sale in a business and are thus assets that are owned. All the other items are liabilities. An overdraft is when a bank balance is negative and the customer owes...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...physical, emotional and spiritual attachment to it. Customary rights often come into conflict with the notion of property rights of the state. When African countries were granted independence from the colonial powers, any land not under private ownership was considered as belonging to the newly independent state, including land that communities considered to be their...
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...physical comfort, eating and drinking, while observing and reporting specific changes to the registered nurse providing support for patients’ family and friends performing and reporting clinical observations of a patient’s temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure obtaining measurement of a patient’s height and weight. Before the creation of these new...
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...physical processes that lie behind these different manifestations of active galaxies...Introduction to active galaxies: 3.2 Seyfert galaxies - In 1943 the American astronomer Carl Seyfert (1911-1960) drew attention to a handful of spiral galaxies that had unusually bright point-like nuclei. Figure 12 shows NGC 4051, one of the first Seyfert galaxies to be identified....
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...physical persons should reclaim our digital persons, so that advertisers and other companies don’t know all these things about us.” I ask Sjöblad what would bring the devices to the mainstream. He has two concepts for me: relevance and usability. “I think riding public transportation with the use of a chip implant will be such a feature, making this technology...