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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...concepts listed below and how the items in each pair of concepts are related: (a) increasing and diminishing returns to a factor of production; (b) economies of scale and increasing returns to scale; (c) decreasing returns to scale and diseconomies of scale. Why do short-run average costs differ from long-run average costs? Discussion (a) Increasing returns to a factor of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...concept of mind map. And I thought I'd do now just to make it a bit more interactive is give a quick demonstration of the rationale behind mind map. So you all know the origin of it rests with a guy called Tony Buzan (1942–2019), who developed this quite a number of years ago. But I've always found it particularly useful for a number of reasons. The first is in recall....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...concept of total internal reflection. Please, though, remember that electricity and water can be dangerous. Only do the experiment with a battery-powered torch. Fill the bath with water to a level where the torch can be fully submerged. With the room dark enough so that you can easily see where the torch beam is shining, put the torch in the water and point it towards the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...concept of a fire regime and its influence on the type and distribution of organisms that occur in fire prone ecosystems. It also looks at some of the adaptations of plants that have evolved in these ecosystems and how animals either avoid or exploit the consequences of fire as a natural disturbance. Finally it examines how fire can increase biodiversity by generating a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...concepts and ideas demonstrate developed literacy, numeracy, and digital and information literacy skills...Introducing ageing: 1 Thinking about your own ageing - We are all ageing from the moment we are born and most of us will be old one day. Particular events often make people suddenly aware of their own ageing – round number birthdays, for example, the first grey...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...concept of community of practice in relation to schoolteachers’ workplace learning’, International Journal of Training and Development, vol. 8, no.1, pp. 21–31. Tedder, K. and Biesta, G. (2008) adapted from the original paper ‘Learning without teaching? Opportunities and limitations in biographical learning for adults’, written for the European Conference...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...concept of ratio is being used...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 1.2 Expressing ratios - To make short crust pastry, one recipe book says ‘use one part of fat to two parts of flour’; another recipe says ‘use fat and flour in the ratio of one to two’; and yet another says ‘use half as much fat as flour’. These are different ways of expressing the same ratio....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...prompting and scaffolding processes to achieve mastery of that target and then work back through that chain until that young person can complete the whole sequence of skills. And making those learning processes very clear, very tight, very consistent, and repeated over and over again, eventually, that skill becomes mastered. Nathalia Gjersoe Could you explain to me who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs