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Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...system can be made to cope with points involving negative coordinates, such as (−2, 3) or (−2, −3). Just as a number line can be extended to deal with negative numbers, the x-axis and y-axis can be extended to deal with negative coordinates. In this way, if a point is to the left of the origin, its x-coordinate is negative, and if it is below the origin, its...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...system of recording and organising vocabulary works best for you. Here are some suggestions that you may want to try: grouping vocabulary and phrases according to topic (furniture, clothes, a particular hobby that you are interested in, etc.) word families: trabajo (work), trabajador (worker), trabajar (to work), trabajoso (laborious), etc. grouping according to structure...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...system, and she now sits in the House of Lords. [Described image] Figure 3: ‘I feel that our movement, the disability movement, is an emancipation agenda. I see it like apartheid. It’s not just ramps and access, it’s deeply rooted in attitudes.’ (Lady Jane Campbell, quoted in Birkett, 2009) Martin Luther King and Lady Jane Campbell both show how leadership is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...system characterized by multiple risks. Furthermore, they are not simply about preventing disease, but are concerned with making us feel good about how our bodies appear to ourselves and to others. (Shilling, 1997, p. 70) Body projects can be seen as a way for individuals to express themselves, to feel good and to gain some control over their lives. For instance, people...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...system of communication, encompassing language, images and symbols, about a specific subject. Discourse is a central concept in the analysis of harm. For instance, harm is used to analyse relationships between crime, harm and the state, as well as to explore relationships between power and resistance. As well as following the application of discourse to the topic of harms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...system). Below you will see Figure 1, which adapts the above factors to a health behaviour context, providing a model which also explicitly emphasises, together with cultural factors, other features such as the economic environment as an element of the wider social context. [Figure 1] Source: Hastings (2007) Figure 1 The wider determinants of health behaviour As you can...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...systems I could use. I could also have printed off an answer sheet and said ‘look, how did you do? Let me know how you’re getting on.’ DAVE SMITH: Absolutely. So, what I’m saying is that I thought the work was appropriate, but I felt in a sense they were doing extra work and they got nothing for it and you’ve just told me two or three ways you could’ve done it...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...systems are trained on ‘parallel corpora’, which means that the machine is specifically and exclusively trained to translate from language A to language B (also called ‘language pair’). Therefore, they specialise in some language pairs, although not all. There are over 7000 languages spoken in the world, and Google Translate, at the time of writing this course, is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs