1,097 search results
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...et al., 1983) [This cartoon shows three people peering into a box labelled ‘situation’ through a magnifying glass] Figure 2 Choices that can be made about the nature of a situation such as water governance and catchment management situations (adapted from SLIM 2004). For practical purposes it is essential to remember that both the rational and the emotional aspects...
View course Mastering systems thinking in practice
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...double your money is to fold it in half’ is perhaps a reminder that promises of high returns usually carry higher risks. This can be linked to a risk–return spectrum. Products with low risks tend to have lower returns, and those with higher risks have potentially higher returns, as you see in the graph. Later this week and next week you explore investment funds, which...
View course Managing my investments
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...et al., 2017). Psychological and neuroscientific studies, based on scientific, positivistic premises, also have a role to play in generating understandings about children’s development and learning (Goswami, 2006; Bruer, 2016; Juvonen and Gross, 2005). This leads to the question as to how these contributions to knowledge can be recognised in a post-positivist world of...
View course Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...doubling your income from 25,000 to 50,000 pounds, the amount paid in income tax more than triples from 2700 to 8700 pounds. In the UK Income Tax system most people are allowed to earn up to a certain amount of money before Income Tax has to be paid. This is called receiving an ‘allowance of income’, and the type of allowance is called a ‘personal allowance’. In...
View course Managing my money for young adults
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...circulating, bringing all the nutrients and oxygen you need to all of your organs. That’s particularly good for your brain, because it’s very sensitive to a lack of oxygen and glucose. Staying in touch with the world around you will keep your brain and body stimulated. And maintaining regular connections with friends and acquaintances will keep you socially...
View course Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...circulated over the internet or through social media. Then consider and write down what actions that communication led to? Did you receive a direct response from one or more of the receivers, or did it prompt the receivers to any form of action positive or negative? From your observations of these actions, write down how effective you think the piece of communication was?...
View course Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...et locus, n.d.) refers to the idea that to be global citizens we should act locally. A response in keeping with this view of the world would see the purpose of education as to produce citizens with an awareness of the issues challenging them in the world, a sense of responsibility to others and the skills of problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity to address the...
View course Looking globally: the future of education
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...doubles in size? Answer 50 people would require (50 x 49)/2 = 1225 shared secret keys. 100 people would require (100 × 99)/2 = 4950 shared secret keys...Network security: 4.3 The components of a symmetric key system - I shall now explain the components of a symmetric key system in more detail. A block cipher operates on groups of bits – typically groups of 64. If the...
View course Network security
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs