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An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...adults spend using computers (including laptops and tablets) and smartphones each day. See if you can find figures for more than one country. How accurately do you think these figures reflect your own usage? In addition to computers and laptops, there is a wide range of other, perhaps less glamorous, interactive products which many people use daily. We may not pay much...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...adults choose to do in private? When, if ever, is coercion acceptable? Are all laws obstacles to freedom, or are they the very condition of achieving it? Should we sometimes force people to be free, or is that a contradiction in terms? These are serious questions. They're not merely abstract puzzles for philosophers to ponder in comfortable armchairs. They are the sorts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...care is needed to ensure quality and robustness – reliability, soundness of methodology, completeness. You may rely on figures giving you population statistics for your area but how exactly were those numbers derived? Whether working with primary or secondary data, it is often the case that you cannot easily measure what you are really interested in. This includes the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...care is not available and hospitals do not specialised in cancers this is the motive in the establishment of the association and we asked in many meetings on the issue of nuclear explosions because they are very dangerous and dangerous that these radiations will be lost in our region for up to 24,000 years and billions of years and remain in rocks, plants and groundwater....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...care about algorithms? Well, today design can’t be separated from computation. Algorithms can be used creatively to generate new ideas, shapes, and patterns. In today’s design industry, computers are an essential tool for almost every designer, regardless of whether they are creating buildings, computer games, or working on tapestries and theatre lighting. In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...care needs to be taken to check the actual qualification on offer. Table 3: ITE qualifications QUALIFIED TEACHER STATUS ONLY UNDERGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS+QTS POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS+QTS You have met the required standards for you to work as a teacher in your nation. You have met the required standards for you to work as a teacher in your nation and have demonstrated...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...careful calculation of the amount of IR radiation expected to be seen at a whole series of frequencies for a particular distribution of temperatures all the way along the line of sight. That distribution of temperatures is then adjusted until the IR spectrum predicted from it matches the one observed by the satellite, to within a reasonable tolerance. This laborious...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...Caring for subordinates Driving and managing change Problem solving (Adapted from Pearson-Goff and Herrington, 2013, pp. 20–21) To put this in some context, it is worth considering comments made by Edward Flynn, a former chief of police in Milwaukee, and noted scholar Victoria Herrington, who argue that: Leaders require a blend of management skills (e.g., planning,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs