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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...physical comfort? Are you comfortable with your workspace? Are there things you can do to improve it? You may be aware there is a project as a part of this unit: what anticipations do you have about doing the project? Again, I imagine you might have some expectation that you will enjoy or benefit from working on material of your own choosing, or perhaps not. How do you...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...physical health, e.g. get enough sleep, be active, eat healthily give yourself a break, e.g. reward your achievements, resolve conflicts, forgive yourself build your support network, e.g. friends and family, peer support, specialist websites and organisations. Mind Tools (no date) focuses more specifically on resilience in the workplace and suggests you also incorporate...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...physical location. Activity 7 Collaborating and sharing in digital environments Timing: 15 minutes This activity provides you with some practical examples of what collaborating and sharing online involves. In each of the areas covered, read the description and use the text box to write a sentence or two on how confident you feel in that area. Then read the feedback, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...physical strain of maintaining the concentration levels required for successful interaction. The next part of the discussion strikes a more upbeat tone. Activity 14 As you listen to the next conversation, make notes on the liberating and constraining aspects of speaking English as a lingua franca. Then type your answer into the box below. Jim: I’ve been sort of told...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...physical outcomes of the project. A variant of this is the so-called 'outsourced supply team', which simply means that the team is physically situated remotely from the project manager, who then encounters the additional problem of 'managing at a distance'...Groups and teamwork: 2.3.5 Mixed structures - Teams often have mixed structures: some members may be employed to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...physical control over a joyless, fearful population. Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a political system in which order is imposed on the population through ideological manipulation and the systematic use of state terror. A totalitarian state is a one-party state in which dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. The term has been used to describe both Hitler's Germany (a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...physically present on earth, and to proclaim the Christian Gospel to others. For Wilberforce it is crucial to recognise the Holy Spirit's continuing presence today as a source of strength and power for holy and obedient Christian living, which is what he means by ‘sanctifying influence’. Here too, in emphasising the supernatural dimension of religion, Wilberforce is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...physical conditions and to receive the greatest sunshine and heaviest rainfall? Answer The uppermost canopy layer, i.e. the crowns of the tallest trees, plus the growth that rises up through it - the emergent layer. Question 6 Question: Look at the location of the middle layer. What conditions are likely to prevail here, with respect to temperature, air movement and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs