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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:...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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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...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...alphabetical order): age disability gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin) religious background sex sexual orientation. You will probably recognise that these are very similar to the categories identified by Ahmed (2018) in the discussion from Activity 12. Before...
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...alphabet. Some letters change shape as a capital – A instead of a, B instead of b. However, some do not; they are just a larger version: C instead of c, K instead of k. Capitals are also known as upper-case letters, while the smaller, standard versions are known as lower-case letters. It is very important that when you use a capital letter, it is clear that it is a...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...alphabetically are: Conceptualization Data curation Formal analysis Funding acquisition Investigation Methodology Project administration Software Resources Supervision Validation Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing (CRT, 2015) These are important issues to be open and honest about in order to work collaboratively in research...Session 5:...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...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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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...alphabet (with a little imagination). For example, one set of labels uses the letters F, I, L, N, P, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z. See if you can match these letters to the pentominoes you made. One challenge is to use all 12 pentominoes to make a 10 by 6 rectangle. 5 × 12, 4 × 15 and 3 × 20 rectangles are also possible. Other challenges are to make animals – a penguin,...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs