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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...artificial distinction because the world I perceive to be the ‘real world’ is, in fact, my own conceptual model. What I perceive is conditioned by my conceptual models. So for me the real ‘real world’, is unknowable. My desire is to change the question from ‘what is the world’ to ‘how do I know the world’. So every time I use the term ‘real world’ you...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...intelligence’). A verb denotes an action or state: ‘do’, ‘is’, ‘eat’, ‘jump’, etc. An adjective adds information to a noun, for example to add a description, like ‘black’, ‘nice’, ‘difficult’. An article is a word that can be used with a noun, like ‘a’ or ‘the’ in English. Don’t worry if grammar terminology is completely new to you!...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...artificially systematic and unrealistically precise devices that allow us to construct an easy-to-apply framework for conceptualising the important components of environmental decision making. The simplified framework, whilst useful, cannot completely describe the complexity and interconnectedness of many real-world decisions. (Sexton et al., 1999, p. 5) Table 2...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...artificially carbonated. That's pumped directly up from the cellar, so they tend to be a little bit less fizzy. They tend to fill you up a little bit less. So they're usually a little bit less refreshing. They're also served less cold as well. The stout, on the other hand, is a very malt-forward beer. We're showcasing the dark malts, the roasted barley, the roasted...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...intelligence or types of attitude, albeit seeking to do this through observable indicators like responses to tests and questionnaires. Positivists have generally assumed that it is possible to document recurrent or standard patterns of relationship – first between people’s background experiences and their attitudes, and then between their attitudes and their...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...intelligible only to the software system; objects are not distinguished by the data they store. How people distinguish between real-world objects is different from how software distinguishes between objects which may represent those real-world objects. People distinguish between real-world objects using identifiers with values that are understood by other people, e.g. a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...intelligence and cunning and that she is just as resourceful as he is when it comes to dealing with a challenging situation. Penelope asks that Eurycleia move their bed outside the bedroom to make up a place for somewhere to sleep (23.177–180). Their bed is, however, immovable – it was carved by Odysseus himself from a single olive tree growing at the centre of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...intelligence and morale.) The division of labour, and hence productivity, increased with the emergence of the factory system, in which many workers were brought together under one roof for the first time and each worker was responsible for a small part of the final product. This was very different from the craft manufacture system, in which each worker was responsible for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs