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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...alphabet. The rules that relate input to output are constant over time. The question of what I can know about the outside world is an ancient one and has always been central in philosophy under the theme of epistemology. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge and knowing: how do I know about the outside world? how do I know my senses are not...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...alphabetical order of authors' surnames in the reference list. Another very important reason for getting an overview of a document is that it helps you to avoid taking a passive approach when you read the document in full. A passive reading approach is one where the reader puts in very little effort. The outcome of this sort of reading tends (at best) to be a string of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...alphabetical order. Select 'Galena' from the menu. A very useful feature of the Digital Kit is a 'Random' button (adjacent to the catalogue), which can be used for self-test and revision purposes. When clicked, a random mineral, rock or fossil is presented, depending on which of these three categories is already selected. There are two stages of working in random mode:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...alphabetical order of country, but by clicking on the headers you can make it display in order of Diversity Index (RDI), or in the order of percentages of a particular religion. Explore the table and note down your thoughts as to why the European countries listed above scored highly on this measure of diversity? Can you think of ways in which their various pasts have...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...alphabetical order or by genre. When organising larger collections, particularly non-fiction, librarians often use more sophisticated classification systems, the most common being the Dewey Decimal System. This Dewey Decimal system is used in schools, universities and public libraries worldwide and categorises subjects into ten broad groups shown in Box 1. The Dewey...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...Alphabet following a company restructuring in 2015 – so search for Alphabet (on the Nasdaq exchange) rather than Google when tracking the company’s share price. So, by 2020 the concerns being expressed about Google were about its global power rather than whether the company was a bubble...Week 4: Investment in practice – practices, styles, history and performance:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...alphabetical order) English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The actual number of speakers of each language depends on who you count. Box 1 Before taking a closer look at how many people speak these major languages, it is important to understand some of the terminology used to distinguish between different groups of speakers. First language: A language learned by a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...alphabet character, a woman talking on a phone, a mood chart and a piece of green paper full of scribbles appear around the acronym NLP. A subfield of NLP is Natural Language Generation, or NLG. This specialised branch of AI gives computers the ability to craft text that is not only understandable but also contextually relevant. It is the driving force behind the creation...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs