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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...double-check what you find against other sources. If you are looking for a particular type of media, you may find it useful to go to a site that brings those resources together. Some examples include YouTube for videos, SoundCloud for music and podcasts, and the onlinenewspapers.com site which provides access to newspapers from around the world. It is often possible to...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...et al., 2001) conducted similar research to the Gothenburg study. He modified Säljö’s original ideas and suggested that there are three different approaches taken by learners: Surface learning This is associated with the idea that learning is about memorising facts. When engaged in surface learning, students prefer to be told what to read and what notes to take. A...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...et al. (1963) SAQ 4 The back of a particular airline seat is 100 mm thick. Explain why it would be unreasonable to install 12 rows of seats in a cabin with a floor length of 7 m. Suggest, with a brief justification, a more reasonable number of rows. Answer The space available per seat with 12 rows in 7 m would be Of this, 100 mm must be allowed for the seat back, leaving...
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...double the weight of the subgroup ‘Catering’. The chart gives a good indication of average spending patterns in the UK in the early 21st century. Activity 19 The expenditure of a typical household (a) Using Figure 37, estimate roughly what fraction of the expenditure of a typical household is on each of the following groups and subgroups: Personal expenditure Housing...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...doubled approximately every two years, a fact known as Moore’s law. Unfortunately, this trend cannot continue indefinitely, because one of the main ways that these improvements are realised is by shrinking the size of the circuit elements. Improving the algorithms is the second possibility. The power of an algorithm can be expressed by stating how the ‘run-time’...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

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An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...et al. (2015) p. 332...An introduction to interaction design: 4.4 Interaction design as a discipline - So far we have talked about interaction design as a process defined by specific activities and characteristics. However, more broadly, interaction design is a field of expertise to which a variety of disciplines contribute, such as psychology, sociology, graphic design...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...et al., 2011; Toegel and Barsoux, 2012) have discussed these five broad dimensions. Openness to experience: this dimension includes people’s tendency to appreciate art; to be intellectually curious, creative or imaginative; to pursue novelty; or to prefer change over stability. High openness to experience can also be an indicator of a lack of focus and consistency. Low...