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Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...composition of a balanced team. When, as a manager, you have no control over the composition of a team it is important to discuss with team members their strengths and weaknesses and preferred working styles...Working in groups and teams: 4 The life cycle of a team - This section covers the stages that teams normally go through, from forming to disbanding. Note that the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...composition of astronomical objects leads to emission and absorption features that provide us with information about physical conditions (e.g. temperatures, densities, and chemistry). This is why spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools available to astronomers. However, we can also use image methods to study these emission lines, by filtering out all of the light...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...composition and function. Rods enable species to see in black and white; the presence of cones provides colour vision. By working out the ratio of rods to cones in the retina, an animal's ability to detect colour can be established. As you'd predict of nocturnal animals, pottos, lorises and bush-babies appear not to have colour vision. In prosimians generally, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...composition, an obvious nationalist reference to the Mexican flag, which also has an eagle at its centre (Folgarait, 1998, p. 114). The eagles all fly in the same direction, which strengthens this visual symmetry, and hence their iconographic and narrative importance. Immediately below the central eagle is the figure of Cortés on horseback in combat with an Aztec...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...composition of such works, the time thinks, the market thinks, the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us. Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day, and the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with...
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Article 15 mins
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...composition of his musical masterpiece, The Creation. A telescope also provided the inspiration for this work. Haydn's diary entry, written in England in 1792, gives an account of his visit to the home of William Herschel, also a musician and composer, and his sister Caroline. The Herschels were to become the greatest astronomical observers of the time. On 15th June I...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...composition of rhythmic processes, of living movement and, from time to time, of sudden change. This feature of changing environments is the first major theme we shall be using in this course and the series as a whole to help you approach your studies. We shall return to this theme in terms of the estuary in a moment. What other features compose the present scene? Across...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...composition (diversity) in the twenty-first century, a significant change from the 1980s and 1990s is the increase in one-parent families, which now total almost two million. Of these one-parent families, 9 out of 10 households are headed by mothers (Beaumont, 2011). Women also tend, in general, to eat more healthily than men, so it might be supposed that children who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs