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How to be a critical reader
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How to be a critical reader

...analysis of a text...How to be a critical reader: 1.3 Thinking about what a text is saying and doing - When you read critically it is important to ask yourself first what the text is saying and then what it is doing: for example, how it develops an argument. This is called the function of a text. A part of a text can also have a function. Understanding what a text and its...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...analysis that determine, among other things, whether or not those who engage in opportunistic behaviour are able to secure or evade justice...Equity – law and idea: 3.2 Laissez-faire capitalism - Like equity, capitalism cannot be fully explained simply by reference to something called ‘capitalism’. It is far more nuanced than that. The type of capitalism referred to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...analysis of the interview data resulted in the construction of five non-fictional short stories highlighting the emotions underlying the coaches’ experiences of burnout. The coaches described a variety of emotions including anxiety, anger, apathy and dejection, which had negative implications upon their well-being and coaching practice. Emotions were linked to the three...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...Analysis in this way helps us to understand how we might improve the performance of the task in some way. Let us use the simple example of preparing a sandwich to illustrate analysis. Using the process approach we can analyse the job as having the inputs, sub-processes and outputs seen in Figure 3. [Figure 3] Figure 3 An example transformation model In Figure 3, you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...data...Marketing communications in the digital age: 2.1 Macro-model of communication - The macro-model of communication encompasses 10 elements. It describes the movement of an idea (such as a marketing message) from the sender (marketer or a company acting on their behalf), through encoding (content creation), into a message transmitted through a communications channel...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...data confirmed that the grounding line in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica is showing sustained and widespread retreat, and two modelling studies of the great Pine Island Glacier (shown on the map) and next door Thwaites Glacier predicted this retreat is indeed unstable, driven by warm “Circumpolar Deep Water” coming onto the continental shelf. It’s...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...data, conduct experiments and examine the amplitudes, limits and margins of life but there are some fundamental questions about innate properties of organisms themselves, the conditions in which life survives, conditions in which biological diversity evolves on our planet … fundamental questions about life in the extremes that need to be answered. During the Covid-19...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...data, it is problematic to generalise small-scale qualitative research findings. Furthermore, home-educating families within and across national and international contexts, are not a homogenous group in terms of demographics, motivations and practices. Rather, home education encompasses a broad spectrum of educational philosophies, methods, curricula, styles and...
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Article 5 mins