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Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...profile, Milton Keynes was depicted by a 2016 community report as a ‘tale of two cities’ – this is because the town showed one of the starkest contrasts between affluent and deprived communities in the UK (Milton Keynes Community Foundation, 2016). [Described image] Figure 8 Religious buildings in Milton Keynes As a town established in the 1960s, Milton Keynes...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...style. It also reveals something important about the status of detective fiction authors in the 1920s and the relationship between the texts and their readership (an issue to which you will return). [This newspaper illustration features three head and shoulders images of the same woman. The accompanying caption indicates that the one in the centre is ‘Mrs. Agatha...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...style is going out of style. So basically, it will stay. So this might be something for the future. Video 1 Design practioner interview: Aleksandra Jovanić talks about working with algorithms Highlights from the interview Here are a few points from Aleksandra’s interview to consider. Aleksandra uses computer code to create systems that produce visual and audio outputs....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...et al., 2010; Tombs and Whyte, 2010). The concept of social harm can be used to open up the possibilities of new narratives in such areas as Green Criminology and eco crime, human rights, and human security. It creates new considerations of how to govern global social relations and alternative ways of conceiving justice. Within this framework, it is possible to consider a...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...et al., 1997) view of mathematics, not teaching discrete chunks of mathematics but supporting students in seeing how each topic draws on and extends the ideas that they have worked with before. Being a connectionist teacher also requires you to think about how the mathematics that your students are learning is part of the real world and why learning is important to them...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...et al., 1990) which developed from the highly successful Toyota Production System. It focuses on the elimination of all forms of waste from a production system. A focus on driving inventory levels down also exposes inefficiencies, reduces costs and cuts lead times. Mass customisation (Pine et al., 1993) which seeks to combine high volume, as in mass production, with...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...et al., 2012) Fel y mae'r ddau weithiwr cymdeithasol yn y fideos yn dangos, mae llunio'r cysylltiad rhwng profiad personol a'r hyn y mae gweithwyr cymdeithasol yn ei gynnig i'w hymarfer yn gam cynnar pwysig i ddod yn ymarferydd myfyriol. Mae ymarfer gwaith cymdeithasol da yn ymwneud yn bennaf â chydberthnasau (Wilson et al., 2011) ac ymgysylltu'n effeithiol â defnyddwyr...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...profile in this standard, and the default format for Apple’s iTunes. Since AAC involves many varied processes in analysing different types of audio signal, no single algorithm is able to meet the diverse set of requirements it must fulfil. Therefore AAC has integrated different applications into a single framework covering music synthesis, low-bit-rate speech coding,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs