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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...data? Do you trust the information provided and the claims made? The term provenance refers to the authenticity of the website and reliability of the place where the information provided comes from. You should ask: Is it clear where the information has come from? Here, you might consider the website address or URL (uniform resource locator) – academic websites in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...data for over 1,000 large companies spanning 15 countries and found that those in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25% more likely to have above average profitability, than those in the fourth quartile. It suggests there is as much as a 48% difference in outperformance, which separates the most from the least gender diverse companies. The...
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Article 15 mins
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...data from the OECD Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), which regularly assesses the reading attitudes and attainment of 15 year olds. In one such study, Cheung (2016) claims that fondness for reading (defined in his work as readers who follow their hearts), aspiration for reading, and being good at reading are seen as salient elements of readers’...
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Article 5 mins
Sut y gall pob un ohonom fynd i'r afael â'n hôl troed carbon digidol
Nature & Environment

Sut y gall pob un ohonom fynd i'r afael â'n hôl troed carbon digidol

...data hynny. O ystyried hynny, lleihau ein defnydd o fideo yw'r cam cyntaf yn ein hymdrech i leihau'r allyriadau carbon a gynhyrchir gennym wrth ddefnyddio technolegau digidol. Wedyn, gallwch chwilio am gyfleoedd i leihau unrhyw ddefnydd diangen o bŵer drwy ostwng lefelau dyfeisiau, neu eu diffodd. Awgrymiadau ar gyfer lleihau carbon gweithredol Diffoddwch ddyfeisiau, yn...
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Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...data in this section), where the value quoted will always be in millions or billions of barrels of oil. The daily global consumption of oil for 2010 is given in the BP Statistical Review as 87 million barrels of oil per day. The price of crude oil is generally given as the price (in US dollars) per barrel. On the other hand, scientists internationally tend to use SI...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. Source: Laplace, Celestial Mechanics (1799–1825) So what could have been more natural than to picture the workings...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...analysis, as it is called in shorthand, is a fundamental skill in Classical Studies. The results of source analysis can then be organised into a discussion and argument to communicate your knowledge and understanding. This course doesn't actually give you the opportunity to do the communicating, but the case study within the text that you have just read did provide an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...analysis, which traces all the environmental impacts of a product – from the extraction and processing of raw materials through to manufacture and delivery of the product, its use and what happens at the end of its life. For petrol- and diesel-engine cars, the energy consumed in use can be less than 20% of the total life cycle energy use (Rosendfeld et al., 2019)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs