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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...multiple functions within your organisation of interest. Based on Cummings and Worley's (2004) four basic sets of organisational issues, six key function areas where change, development or innovation can be desirable are: strategic techno-structural human resources human process marketing finance. These are illustrated, in modified and updated form, in Figure 6. When you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...multiple sources of information too much information difficult-to-manage information irrelevance or unimportance of information lack of time to understand information. As we speed through the twenty-first century, the data and information landscape, especially online, is growing without precedent. By January 2017 it was estimated that there were 4.6 billion pages on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...multiplication 10 super negative 12 C squared N super negative one m super negative two (to 3 significant figures) is called the permittivity of free space. The definition of k sub normal e times normal l times normal e times normal c leaves you with the standard vector form of Coulomb’s law for the electrostatic force between two charges. Coulomb’s law for two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...multiplicity of voices, rather than a singular viewpoint. (Norðdahl & Einarsdóttir, 2015, p. 153) So, thinking generally about the family as a context for children’s learning is made up with complex layers of relationships and cultural influences unique to each group. In this course, you will begin to explore these complexities further. You will start by thinking...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...multiple ideas. When they speak it is often in Chinese – and there is something rather surreal about watching young people in the UK discussing British graffiti artist Banksy in Mandarin. The children say they chose to learn in Chinese because they thought it would be “fun” and “interesting” and “useful” – a far cry from the dreary French lessons I endured...
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Article 10 mins
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...multiple lines: sectarian (Catholic/Protestant), political (reformist/revolutionary) and occupational (craft/unskilled). The events of 1914-22 were interpreted as a series of discrete disputes, in which groups of workers pursued immediate, pragmatic goals (e.g. rent restrictions); defended specific, sectional interests (e.g. over the dilution of skilled by unskilled...
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Article 20 mins
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...multiple lines on a chart, or place complementary line charts side by side, so we can look for similarities and differences between them. From the UN Population Prospects Demographic Profiles, select Bahrain as the country of interest and then click on the Line Charts tab to display a variety of line charts depicting how the values of several other indicators have changed...
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Video 30 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...multiple copies of texts, book clubs and ‘reading spines’ (the non-required kind) that trigger book blether between readers have the potential to stimulate the social motivation to read. Additionally, social reading spaces in and around the school, that inspire and invite young people to share the experience of reading are worth developing and monitoring. Relaxed...
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Article 5 mins