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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...intelligent non-specialists. They need to understand what you are talking about in language that is not overly complex, that actually relates to the real world decisions they have to make. You also need to present information in ways which can be comparable with the other issues that they have to deal with, so imagine you are providing some information on some particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...intelligent, connected wardrobe, and importantly, for fashion and technology coming together. Of course, we still don't all own one of those either. So what about the invisibility cloak? Long a fantasy of folklore and fairy tale, it's also been a massive part of modern day literature and film, including the likes of Harry Potter. Now while we don't own one of those...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...Intelligence, an online background screening organisation based in the USA, defines what is inappropriate: ‘“Inappropriate” can mean a variety of things ‘At Social Intelligence, we categorize flagged content into four broad filters: intolerance, violence (including threats), potentially illegal activity, and sexually explicit content. Additionally, any type of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...artificial sources of warmth and illumination. Technologies for harnessing the power of the Sun, firewood, water and wind continued to improve right up to the early years of the Industrial Revolution, but by then, the advantages of coal, the first of the fossil fuels to be exploited on a large scale, had become apparent. These highly concentrated energy sources soon...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...intelligence. By way of further example, if you were born into a poor family you would be more likely to remain poor and die earlier (Marmot, 2008). If you are a young Black or disabled person in your early twenties in the UK, you are more than twice as likely not to be in employment, education or training (NEET) as young white and non-disabled people (EHRC, 2010). There...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...artificial fertilizers must be used down river in the valley. Without the yearly supply of sediment in floodwater, the banks of the Nile are eroding downstream of the dam, and the Nile delta is reducing in size; the erosion by wave action no longer being counteracted by a fresh supply of sediment...Surface water: 3.4.6 Soil salinization - The change from annual flooding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...artificiality of an interview context can induce anxiety which can mean participants give one-word/short responses to questions. Occasionally, this can create a dynamic where the researcher falls to closed questioning leaving little space for the participant to give lengthy and detailed answers. If this happens, ask open-ended questions and avoid closed questions which...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...artificial ideal types of constructs. In fact, all leadership models can be dismissed a little more than stereotypes. If questioned, most leaders would prefer to describe themselves as transformational and at times, they probably are. However, if we are to observe their day-to-day practices, we might well observe a transactional approach. Most leaders are both depending...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs