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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...everyday language, the word 'power' is often used as a synonym for 'energy', but this is not strictly correct. Power is the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another or transmitted from one place to another. The scientific unit of power is the watt. Renewable energy can take a variety of these forms, and can be defined as: energy obtained from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...everyday problems, particularly in safety limits but elsewhere too. For example, medicines may have to be stored at a temperature of 25 °C or less. Child rail tickets can be bought for children who are 5 or more years old but less than 16 years old. Rather than writing out ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’, some shorthand notation is often used as shown below....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...everyday professional practice, by harvesting and harnessing the host of research into health and social care that exists to inform the development of new policy and practice. To help steer your thinking the next section explores three case studies which illustrate what this might mean. Use these case studies to stimulate your thinking about literature you might want to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...everyday life and help them feel value...Understanding children: Babies being heard: 1 People right from the start - In this course you will meet the family that you read about in the Introduction and find out some of the things very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...everyday environment. We tend to think of needs as fairly simple and singular things, but in reality they are manifold and complex, and change many times during the course of a day...Design thinking: 2.2 Changing our behaviour - The word ‘need’ also implies improvement. We design new things because we think they will improve our lives somehow; for example, they may...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...everyday language, the word ‘angle’ is often used to mean the space between two lines (‘The two roads met at a sharp angle’) or a rotation (‘Turn the wheel through a large angle’). Both of these senses are used in mathematics, but it is probably easier to start by thinking of an angle in terms of the second of these – as a rotation. The diagram below shows a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...everyday things or activities make someone feel panicky? Write your response in the box. Discussion You may have listed common fears (like spiders) or fears that are quite personal to you. However one thing to note about panic attacks is that a common experience is that they happen apparently out of the blue – with no apparent trigger at all...Panic attacks: what they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...everyday business, and to gain as much profit as possible out of it. GeoSense is a company that mainly, is mainly a trading company. We established back in 2002, working in the segment of geoinformatics. And lately and since 2010, we've been introducing in Greek market drone technologies, and we sell a lot of well-known brands in Greek market. But apart from box moving,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs