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Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...artificial digital tone. The reason for this is that the MP3 developers decided to limit the audio bandwidth to approximately 16 kHz for 128 kbit s−1 and only approximately 8 kHz for 64 kbit s−1. Activity 16 Exploratory This activity ‘Perceptual sensitivity and masking’ allows you to explore some audio examples of the relative hearing sensitivity response of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...artificial. For example, shifts in demographics and changes in the lives of women shaped health and welfare policies; the mass media was a vehicle through which to debate change, but also a tool to promote it; and the experience of all these features of modern life was arguably most intense within the urban environment. Two issues, derived from the historiography, will...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...artificial atmosphere to sustain the crew. (b) Outside the space craft, where there is a vacuum and the crew need to wear space suits to survive. (c) On a planet where there is a poisonous atmosphere and where the crew need to wear space suits (which are not soundproof). Answer (a) Sound would be conveyed by the atmosphere within the craft, so the slogan does not apply...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...artificial example. Interviewer Sure. Maria Fernández-Ferreira If you have – for example – a method for conducting an auction online, OK? So you have the technical infrastructure behind. So you need to have a network of computers. You might even need to solve technical problems concerning, for example, submitting a bid. However, if your invention lays on defining a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...intelligent boy, but he has an awful lot of problems with fine motor skills. He really isn't interested in writing at the moment. And he's still very much at the scribbling stage. But because we have allowed him to work and develop at his own pace, we can say that there has been a good improvement. This was Jack in September. And here, he was supposed to be practising the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...artificiality of the models, however, it is true that most industries must have tight procedures in order to manage the complex and very expensive interaction between their designers and/or between design teams. Companies may impose procedures based on formal design models, simply because they have to have some explicit set of procedures to follow. Design cannot be...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...intelligence), with; a reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning); which started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development. (Department of Health, 2001, p. 14) Activity 1 Definitions of learning disability Timing: Allow about 30 minutes 1. Watch the video below, which shows what ‘learning disability’ means to different people. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...artificial lighting Outdoor facility other athletes members of public weather Equipment ‘feel’ of grips, for example in tennis or hockey footwear kit – type of material, what has been washed with? Coach clarity of communication tone and volume of voice demonstrations This activity will have prompted you to think about how different sporting spaces can be experienced...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs