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Money & Business

Working in teams

...Write your thoughts down, either in the space below, in your workbook or in any other way you prefer. Comment You will revisit this at the end of the course to see how much your feelings about teams, and also your objectives for taking this course, have changed or been fulfilled. In the next section, you will explore why teamwork is so important for employers...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...write, technological change continues to be very rapid, and two particular technological developments will be used in this chapter to illustrate our discussion of the forces shaping the organisation of industrial production. The dilemma faced by car manufacturers in adjusting to the hydrogen economy’ of the future will be discussed in Section 4. We also discuss digital...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...write about systems, but one way to make them dynamic and immersive is to draw them. In this unit, you will meet a variety of diagram types to help you explore and learn about your perspective on environmental management systems. An overview of systems diagrams, conventions, use and worked examples are included in the Systems Diagramming free course and also in the Guide...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...writing is a form about the presentation of difference”). With each displacement, ‘Tit Edvard and Télesphore face different cultures, but are reoriented by familiar cultural elements, as for instance the French language or animals. Ultimately, the third tale develops the diasporic leitmotif even further, for it is a veritable reenactment of the Acadian tragedy:...
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Article 15 mins
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...write at big school and you can play at wee school. …Fay: I hate big school and I loved playschool because you get to paint in play school with toys and all you have to do is colour, you get to paint, eat sweets or take lunch. There’s what I love. (McGettigan and Gray, 2012, p. 25) The researchers highlighted that infant classrooms tended to be formal and goal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...write some notes on how the video uses these concepts to analyse the airport. (You may wish to watch the video again.) Security Discussion Surveillance is essential for modern airports. Airports constantly rehearse for emergencies. Passengers are all treated as a potential threat. The passport is central to controlling security via use of ‘gateways’ and ‘choke...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...writing ‘YOU’ in the centre circle on your piece of paper. Next, write the names (and their relationship to you) of those individuals who are most significant in your life in the first circle out from the centre. In the next circle out, add those people that you are ‘less close to’, but who are ‘still very important’. In the outer circle, add any people who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...write this, in the room that I use as an office at home. It is freezing outside, and my room is not at what I consider to be a very comfortable temperature. I can switch on an electric heater, but then if I leave the room for a period, with the heater running, it may be too hot when I get back, and the window will have to be opened, wasting all that expensive electricity!...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs