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Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...2 What is innovation? - Joseph Schumpeter, a seminal thinker on the crucial role of innovation in economic development, argued in his classic book The Theory of Economic Development that capitalism is fundamentally a dynamic system of change and is incapable of remaining static (Schumpeter, 1934). He describes the ‘perennial gales’ of ‘creative destruction’...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...2, I’m very proud of the fact that we have interactive, participative, joyous, celebratory, UK wildlife for UK audiences on air for 26 hours a year and now all other social media, websites, red button, you name it. And even more proud of the fact that it’s actually a hit. We’re not doing it just because it’s good for us, in a Reithian, BBC kind of way, it’s...
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Video 40 mins
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...2 Understanding motivation - Motivation underlies all aspects of human behaviour and can help to explain why people do what they do. At times, though, it may be difficult to understand even your own motivation. Sometimes you will have a clear idea of what you are intending to achieve by your behaviour and the motivation behind it. There may be other times, however, when...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...2 Fiction thrives on elements that are factual or seem factual; it traditionally contains much information which appears real and normal. What did you find from writing the fact and fiction paragraphs, and from reading any others? You may have seen or heard game shows with a similar premise – panel members talk imaginatively and often comically about themselves, or an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...2 The scales of justice Activity 1 Symbols of criminal law Timing: Allow 10 minutes What symbols come to mind when you think of the criminal courts? Comment Some popular symbols include: A pair of handcuffs A gavel Lady Justice (often holding scales and a sword) A barrister’s wig. [Described image] Figure 3 A gavel However, the gavel is never found in the courts of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...2), a gold-plated copper automaton, which quacked and swam, rose on its legs and, astoundingly, ate food out of the exhibitor's hand, digested it and excreted it. Vaucanson devised an elaborate system of internal pipes to achieve this, complete with a chemical digestive plant in the place of the stomach. The duck made its last appearance in the Paris exhibition of 1844,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...2) Cynigodd Simone Aspis, sy'n disgrifio ei hun fel ‘goroeswr ysgol arbennig’, y diffiniad canlynol: “Dylai addysg gynhwysol greu cyfleoedd i bob dysgwr gydweithio. Mae hyn yn golygu cydnabod bod dysgu yn well pan fo unigolion o alluoedd, sgiliau a dyheadau gwahanol yn gallu cydweithio mewn menter ar y cyd.” (Aspis, 2004, t. 129) Ysgrifennodd Peter Mittler (2000,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...2, for example, babies’ vision has a short range compared with that of an older child, but this enables them to focus on the face of the carer. The limited vision does not prevent babies from interacting or being aware of the world around them. Such beliefs in babies’ limited capacity were common among many child development experts in the 1950s, and if parents knew...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs