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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...techniques, they also helped me in understanding how well-being, a support system, and academic performance intersect with one another. I am forever grateful for the lessons that I have received through the University’s dyslexia and academic support team. Testimonial #4 The dyslexia support has been amazing and has been the sole reason that I have been able to continue...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...technique that it be finite. The second input is a property that we would normally write in English but, because computers can’t understand English well enough yet we write it in a more formal language. I picked this particular logic, its called Temporal Logic, it doesn’t matter, it is a formal language, a mathematical language that can reason about the ordering of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...techniques of rhetoric, but what matters most of all in any situation where a speech is being made is the audience. The audience, and therefore the context for and the purpose in speaking, will shape not only what is said, but how it is said. The idea of ‘audience’ is, of course, crucial in any form of communication, and as you work through this course you will...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...techniques. We take a broad view, and techniques are discussed fairly independently of exactly where and when they would be used. There has always been debate in the computing industry about just how useful any particular development technique is. We believe that the techniques introduced over the last 30 years or so, and many others currently being researched, are...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...techniques by which technological knowledge is itself created. For example, a particular approach to continuous improvement that used to get a lot of attention in innovation management literature in the early 1990s and has endured into the 2000s is the Japanese ‘Kaizen’ model, which, it was argued, was particularly effective for organisations that needed to deal with...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...techniques to develop objectives for action use Pareto analysis and cause and effect diagrams to explore problem areas generate simple matrix diagrams to relate objectives to strategies name and describe the chief roles various people can assume relating to proposals and projects relate all these roles to the process of organisational planning explain different views of...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
History & The Arts

A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show

...technique for exposing hypocrisy, playing a montage of previous clips, this time from Fox News itself in which commentators noted Stewart’s criticism of President Obama on domestic and international issues. As Stewart acknowledged on his penultimate show, Fox News was “the best known target in our show’s proverbial cross hairs,” so it came as no surprise during...
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Article 5 mins
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...techniques have improved, most developed fisheries have transitioned to quota management. While Fishing For Leave point to the Faroe Islands as a model to replicate in the UK, their fish stocks are overexploited and financial performance is poor. What next? Regardless of how Brexit negotiations pan out, the UK government should reform its allocation policies so that...
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Article 5 mins