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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...techniques. These choices can have a considerable effect upon the outcome of your research. For instance, if you ask for responses to standardised questions from a large number of families you may be able to compare the results between one group and another. However, if you spend a greater amount of time with a smaller number of families you may produce richer and more...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...techniques for the financial appraisal of projects understand private and external costs of environmental impacts and their mitigation understand methods for assessing the economics of environmental impacts understand discounted cash flow (DCF) work with numerical data...Financial methods in environmental decisions: 1 Financial assessment techniques - The for-profit...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...Techniques) Downloadable version available This more complex version of the model takes into account the fact that there are ways of relating that help to facilitate communication (adaptive behaviours) and those that tend to inhibit communication (maladaptive behaviours). The following video explains this idea further. INSTRUCTOR: Remember our original circle? Now, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...technique that encapsulates collapse? The ‘orgy’ of colour is also appropriate to the subject, but was equally controversial...Delacroix: 2.8 Colour and light – exercise - Exercise 2 Compare the effects of colour and light in Sardanapalus with those in David’s Andromache mourning Hector (Plate 3). What similarities and differences can you see? (You may find it...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...technique can be extremely valuable in the marketplace because it gives the inventor a monopoly over its exploitation. There would be little incentive for invention and innovation if a new development could instantly be copied and marketed by anyone with the manufacturing capability. Hence the existence of patents. In this section we will look at the system of patents, in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...technique, which can be equally useful when applied to answering the types of application form questions outlined above...Week 8: Marketing teamwork experience to employers: 1.2 What can the interview discover? - In the following activity, you’ll start to consider how an interview might be used to obtain evidence of a particular set of skills. Activity 1 The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...techniques and approaches are available to teachers, and choosing the most appropriate approach requires skill and knowledge. You may well have already seen how experienced teachers adopt different assessment strategies depending on the type of activity or its focus; for example, whether it concerns the introduction of new language or the practise or manipulation of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...techniques that can be used to assess students’ understanding rather than simply what they can recall. In the final session you are asked to consider the value and importance of involving students in the assessment process and ways in which this can be achieved. I hope you enjoy this course and find it useful in developing your assessment practise. As you work through...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs