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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...becoming less dense and rising as a result, creating a fluid flow known as convection. This is one of the principal modes of heat transfer through windows. It occurs between the air and the glass on the inside and outside surfaces, and, in double-glazing, in the gas trapped between the panes. The convection effects can be reduced by filling double-glazing with heavier,...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...become a very portable medium. I remember when I first started working in, in radio – which was about 400 years ago – it seemed to me that I was on a burning platform that everyone was saying about this is the end of radio, television’s going to take over, and 400 years later radio is booming. It’s audio is doing really well, audio is sexy. I think the other...
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...becomes it: 19’, can be seen to mean something like, ‘A quantity and the seventh part of it is nineteen. What is the quantity?’. The way this is solved is that the scribe produces the number 7, as a kind of trial guess perhaps, but one having the useful property that its seventh part is easy to determine: So we can see that had the quantity been seven, it and its...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...become aggressive or angry because the other thing is people below you look to you for guidance. Video 2 Discussion Vivian and Anita each describe very different change processes. Anita reflects on her experiences of trying to manage a large-scale organisational change, which she eventually came to oppose, while Vivian discusses the changes she experienced when she moved...
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...become weak, frayed, and broken. Many bosses view building relationships as trivial, mundane, and soft. And that remembering a birthday or asking about someone's family diverts the focus from work and is, therefore, a waste of time and company money. In fact, the most effective leaders and therefore, effective collectives, get the best results because of effective...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...Student Engagement [Ar-lein]. Ar gael yn https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/moving-face-face-course-online-without-losing-engagement/ (Cyrchwyd 26 Mehefin 2018). Weller, M. (2011) The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice, Llundain, Bloomsbury Academic [Ar-lein]. Ar gael yn
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...Students on the full Croeso course can access written and spoken examples of northern Welsh on the course website...Croeso: beginners' Welsh: 1.3 How this course is structured - This course consists of sessions 2, 3 and 4 taken from the first course of L196 Croeso. Each session (Sesiwn) consists of a number of activities (named Ymarfer - exercise) to develop your reading,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...becomes active for the same small percentage of its lifetime, but it could also mean that a small proportion of galaxies become active for a longer time. At present we cannot tell which of these scenarios may be correct. A further complication is that some nearby galaxies, including our own, show evidence of a low level of activity in their nuclei, but we shall...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs