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Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...mode and collaboration experience you need, as shown in the figure below, can help you decide which approach to meetings to take. [Described image] Figure 20 Types of hybrid meeting Activity 24 How often do you need a meeting? Timing: 10 minutes Having considered the types of meetings you arrange/attend, think about the frequency of these. Read the following article,...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...Temps atomique international) officially began on 1 January 1958 and has been running steadily ever since. In 1967, the second was redefined as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation from the caesium atom. The definition, part of the International System of Units (or SI, from Système international), was chosen to match the duration of the astronomical...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...et al., 2014). The following text is a summary of this paper. After you have read it, complete Activity 6. Planetesimals are thought to be formed from the solid material of a protoplanetary disk by a process of dust aggregation. It is not known how growth proceeds to kilometre sizes, but it has been proposed that water ice beyond the snowline might affect this process. To...
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...et al. (2015) p. 332...An introduction to interaction design: 4.4 Interaction design as a discipline - So far we have talked about interaction design as a process defined by specific activities and characteristics. However, more broadly, interaction design is a field of expertise to which a variety of disciplines contribute, such as psychology, sociology, graphic design...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...et al., 2011; Toegel and Barsoux, 2012) have discussed these five broad dimensions. Openness to experience: this dimension includes people’s tendency to appreciate art; to be intellectually curious, creative or imaginative; to pursue novelty; or to prefer change over stability. High openness to experience can also be an indicator of a lack of focus and consistency. Low...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...et tu, Brūte? (‘You too, Brutus?’)...Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: 6 Reading Latin - Learning a language inevitably involves learning the meanings of individual words. You will be familiar with this process if you have studied a foreign language before. Perhaps you have created flash cards or drawn up lists of those troublesome words that, for some reason,...
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...et al, 2014). High-level STEM skills are considered to be of key importance to the performance of the UK economy across the board – in terms of jobs, productivity, innovation and global competitiveness. Ensuring that businesses have access to these skills is particularly critical to the process of innovation and will therefore be increasingly important to the UK’s...
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...mode very similar to the one you have already seen in Heller’s Notes on a Scandal, which you looked at in Reading characters in Week 1. This involves a direct exposition of a ‘seen’ character accompanied by an indirect exposition of another character (the narrator). Novakovich also details a more direct sort of self-portrait with the Dostoyevsky extract, which you...