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How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...et al., 2000) Figure 2 The space, time and culture classification of virtual teams Understanding these three variables is useful in determining what kind of virtual team you might be involved in and in helping you decide on appropriate actions to improve them. For example, a team that has members working in the same place at different times (such as an operational team...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) ISI inter-symbol interference ITU-T International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector LAN local area network LED light-emitting diode MEMS micro-electro-mechanical system NZ-DSF non-zero dispersion-shifted fibre OOK on-off keying PC...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...Institute of Sciences and Arts. In 1816 the separate schools of this institute, including what became the nineteenth century Academy of Fine Arts, were restored to direct royal protection) and those bourgeois who supported the reactionary Charles X. He abhorred their dislike of Voltaire and Rousseau, two of the Enlightenment’s most eloquent critics of a corrupt...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – where the main business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many aspects of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...institutions for which they were responsible were the scuole: lay – albeit deeply religious – confraternities, in the larger cases extremely wealthy, which were responsible for a wide range of activities approximating to what we would think of as social services. There were five of the important scuole grandi, and some hundreds of smaller scuole piccole of varying...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...institutions rarely promote the creative process. Many schools tend to focus on enculturating students into existing school knowledge, driven by a concern for individual children to acquire certain amounts of ‘statutory’ know-how before leaving a particular key stage. Research also suggests, however, that in settings where creativity is valued, and where creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...institutes specialising in examining child development. On the basis of his lifelong work he developed a theory that the thinking of typically developing children matures in distinct stages, meaning that older children are biologically capable of understanding things that those in earlier stages cannot. He believed that children moved through these stages as a result of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...series of easy stages in the direction of these advanced activities. Source: McCarthy et al. (1955) Some of these proposals were not followed up; others came to be the core of Symbolic AI research in the ensuing decades. To simplify the above discussion, just let me isolate two key principles which certainly did become central – these are: Representation – 'Intelligent' computer systems contain a model, in some logical or ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs