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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...Autonomous, or ‘power to’, leading to ‘delegating deciding to’; Of course there are many issues associated with each of these categories, for instance in how a process of delegation may be experienced. But the idea is one of an increasingly ‘bottom up’ rather than ‘top down’ approach. One outcome of a ‘power to’ level of power may just be that...
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...autonomous mode within a single session. (Heron, 1972). Another useful model of technology integration is called TPACK and is attributed to Mishra and Koehler (see the diagram below). It focuses more upon the knowledge and skills teachers require to successfully adopt a technology supported or online approach to education. Mishra and Koehler (2006) believe that viewing...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...autonomous people – in other words, technologies can lead. This is not quite to argue that technologies can think and feel for themselves, at least not yet anyway. But it is to argue that most thinking on leadership, and indeed most thinking in practice, tends to assume that we are independent people who rely on rational thought alone. This is a flawed assumption that...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...autonomous from the Chinese Communist Party, but evolved out of various reforms and restructurings. The Chinese economic system during Mao Zedong’s era (1949–1976) followed the Soviet model of a planned economy, which allowed little role for the market. Major industries did not operate as commercial entities but were instead directly subordinated to government...
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...Système International d’Unités). The SI forms the basis for this week’s study. By the end of this week you will have: gained an understanding of SI units and prefixes identified the order of magnitude of a value started to gain an understanding of logarithms considered the precision of measurements gained an understanding of rounding using significant figures...Week...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...Système International d’Unites, abbreviated to SI) was developed in France during the 18th century in an effort to create a unified and rational system of weights and measures. The SI system was adopted as the world standard in 1960. Mass and volume (of liquids) are the quantities chemists most often work with and later in this session you will look at how these are...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...autonomous vehicles to explore the sea bed or maintain offshore oil and gas production facilities. These four classes may be arranged as a table (Table 8). Names are given to each of the classes. Innovation can be viewed as including something new in technology or in the context to which it is applied. Inventions are not always closely attached to context. However, these...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...Autonomous Technology. Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press. Yahoo (2000) (Accessed 4 December 2000 – no longer accessible)...Systems engineering: challenging complexity: Acknowledgements - The following material is Proprietary and is used under licence: Course image: The Cookiemonster in Flickr made available under...