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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...careful in one's own choice of research techniques. Some social researchers attempt to keep their distance from the object in question in order to remain objective or to gain an overall picture. Nevertheless, this does not prevent cultural values and even moral judgements from entering the research process in fundamental ways. A great deal of policy-oriented research on...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...careful consideration of where boundaries might most appropriately be placed. You would need to consider each element in relation to others in the context of a system of interest as a whole. In other words systems literacy – your ability to follow the rules of using systems maps – must be underpinned by your systemic sensibility – your capacity to think and act...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...careful notes, and taking photographs or maybe even using a tape measure, make more recordings with your mics at different locations. You will probably have to wait until you get home to be able to listen to these recordings properly, so making accurate notes is vital. In this way you should be able to build up a sense of how your device works best, but this will also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...careful to include that the automaton can be a human or it can be a machine. After all humans compute, we may not be as fast as machines but in fact there is some ways humans are much, much better computers, than machines. In other words there are still some tasks that humans can solve better than machines. Vision is one example. Speech, natural language processing. A lot...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Careful management of trade payables can result in suppliers funding the business in the short term. After startup, a business uses its existing cash to support future growth by increasing its investment in non-current assets. Further sources of finance may be necessary to supplement equity finance. This process increases the size of a company's balance sheet. Debt...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...careful to involve members of your team in making decisions about matters that affect them, they will be more likely to cooperate with you and with each other. Creating ‘stability zones’. These are areas of work over which you and members of your work group have some control, or a measure of control. Being alert to the actual demands being made on you and those in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...adult, the only way I knew how was to get a textbook and start memorising words. Needless to say, I didn’t learn much at first. Over the years, as I learned more languages, I began to notice new things that worked – often discovering them by accident. When I trained as a language teacher, I discovered many formal language teaching methodologies, such as the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...care of all the necessary content that you need to take on and it’s a way to skip your way through the first year of university by accomplishing all these gather the language kind of business that would be cool. I’d be okay with that. That hurts the business models of higher ed in a lot of cases, not so much an institution like mine, but the bigger ones. But no, I...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs