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Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...division 7,600,000,000 which works out to about 160 searches per person per year. Although it has several smaller rivals, and is blocked or banned in some countries, Google is dominant among search engines. In this section you will mainly be learning ways to make your Google searches more efficient. But some of the same ideas may work with other search engines too. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...Division, HABS MO, 48 INDEP, 3. [Described image] Figure 8 Grandview Farm, Missouri, c.1906–9. Unknown photographer. Photo: © Corbis. Left to right: Martha Ellen Truman, her mother Harriet Louisa Young, and Harry Truman. While Truman himself did not belong to the upper classes, he can be seen as belonging to the ‘elite’ classes through his very powerful role as the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...divisions are relatively rigid, project work can be handed from one functional team to another in order to complete the work. For example, work on a new product can pass from marketing, which has the idea, to research and development, which sees whether it is technically feasible, then to design and finally to manufacturing. This is sometimes known as ‘baton passing’,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...divisions of geological time. Figure 11 shows the geological time-scale. The broadest division of Earth history is into two intervals (called eons) of very different length: the Cryptozoic Eon and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cryptozoic is a vast amount of time – from the origin of the Earth, 4 600 million years (Ma, short for mega-annum) ago, to the start of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...division between substantive and second order concepts helpful? Comment Your ‘big concepts’ will differ from those of colleagues and students and may change over time. Distinguishing between substantive and second order concepts can help you to plan in the medium and long term and to generate enquiry questions as illustrated in Resource One of the Think Piece. Lambert...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...divisions and inequalities. Mills (1959) coined the phrase ‘the sociological imagination’ because he was a sociologist and needed an over-arching term that indicated he was exploring ideas from other sociologists. However, he is clear that the term the ‘sociological imagination’ matters ‘less than the idea’ (p. 19) itself. Mills notes that political theorists...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...divisions seem to be in place in adinkra-making. (A further point, which we learned of on our visit but could not film, is that kente costs a good deal more to buy than adinkra. Kente is so expensive that hire purchase arrangements are on offer. As the proper clothing for mourning, adinkra needs to be affordable to many people.)...Textiles in Ghana: 4.1 The functions of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...divisive issue of the age of criminal responsibility. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland it’s 10. At 8, Scotland currently has the lowest age of criminal responsibility in Europe, but the government there plans to raise it to 12. So, should the rest of the United Kingdom follow suit, or perhaps raise it even higher? It’s 15 in Portugal, 18 in Belgium. Jermaine’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs