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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...technique of interviewing. Interviewing as a research method Interviews can be unstructured, structured or somewhere in between – the semi-structured interview. All three types of interview technique can be used in research. Here you will look a little more closely at structured and unstructured interviews: In a structured interview, the researcher will ask the same set...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...techniques to determine the ages of rocks and minerals changed ideas about the age of the Earth. Try to think of other examples where science has advanced when new measurements have tested scientific hypotheses, and note down your answers. Discussion This is what science is. It is a way of thinking about the world around us in a logical and rational manner, suggesting an...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...technique has been used to hasten product development and reduce time to market by having teams (not necessarily functional teams) distributed in locations around the world. As the working day finishes in one location, so the team’s work is passed on to the next location, where the working day is just beginning. The matrix team Matrix structures are often found in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...technique called ‘gutting’ a book. This is an extremely useful skill. As an example, you’ll look at Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks’ Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, a textbook which is used on many university courses. Looking at the contents pages (one of which is reproduced in Figure 2), you can see she has chosen to split the period into two (1450–1600 and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...techniques for manipulating of signals in the time and frequency domains explain the application, benefits and limitations of communications, control and signal processing techniques in real world applications select and apply appropriate techniques to the analysis of time-varying signals represented in both the time and frequency domain use a digital filter to remove...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...techniques and develop skills that are useful in the process of designing. This practical approach to learning and practice is also at the heart of design engineering. This section starts by discussing a few characteristics of design that you may not have come across before...An introduction to design engineering: 1.1 Design is more than aesthetics and appearance - It can...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...techniques, including case studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning, students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st century, offers a managerial perspective on how to deliver more effective...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...technique will work for any distance and can be written down concisely as the following word formula: distance in kilometres × 0.6214 = distance in miles. This is the same as writing: distance in miles = distance in kilometres × 0.6214. You can use this formula to convert any distance in kilometres into miles. For example, suppose you wanted to convert 500 km. Using the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs