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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...systems (Cuban, 1988). From this perspective, for example, a subject leader may manage the resources to support a change in teaching method that they have been leading their colleagues to consider. This course adopts a critical perspective and argues that educational leadership and management are contested concepts. For example, we can question Cuban’s (1988) view that...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The house doesn't always win
Digital & Computing

The house doesn't always win

...systems, to heating systems and lightbulbs can connect to the internet – either to receive content (such as movies and music), or to allow for remote monitoring (‘how warm is my house right now?’) or control (turn the oven on, I’m on my way home). The thermometer was used to monitor the water temperature in an aquarium and sent data over the casino’s wireless...
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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...think about all the different possible ways that our clients can connect to the digital platform. The key strength of Ecobank is that we have these relationships in 33 countries with the regulators. That means we’re able to construct systems like rapid transfer, which is a means of making instant transfers from one Ecobank account to another one in a different country....
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Article 10 mins
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...system that you have in your home – solar powered or otherwise – can you think of any further sources of heat? Discussion People give off heat, and the more of them you can fit into your home the less you will need other sources of heat, as you may have noticed at a crowded party. Household appliances are also incidental sources of heat. A refrigerator, for example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...think about how convincing their arguments sound, and reflect on your own views on reward systems. Mann, S. (2013) ‘Why “100% attendance awards” at school don’t work’, Huffington Post, 10 June [online]. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ sandi-mann/ why-100-attendance-awards_b_3414693.html (accessed 17 December 2015). Paton, G. (2009) ‘Classroom...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?
Education & Development

Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?

...system nerfol awtonomig yn dechrau gweithio. Mae hyn yn beth da i ddechrau, gan ei fod yn actifadu'r system hon sy'n rhyddhau'r adrenalin niwrogemegol - ac mae hyn yn eich ysgogi i fynd ati a chanolbwyntio ar eich gwaith. Fodd bynnag, mae'r broblem yn dechrau pan fydd cyfnodau o straen yn ymestyn. Pan fydd hyn yn digwydd, bydd y rhan sympathetig yn gweithio'n barhaol, gan...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...system] Customer service must also be forward thinking. It cannot just meet the needs of present customers. It additionally must consider new ways of doing business and therefore the needs of new consumers. This future-oriented perspective is perhaps especially relevant in the current period as technology and evolving social values are rapidly changing the 21st century...
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Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...system, and through its Codes of Practice and Conduct (Codes) recognises how factors such as bias and uncertainty of measurement can undermine the reliability of evidence. Mitigation of these types of issues can vary between the different disciplines of forensics. For example, some would argue uncertainty of measurement is not relevant to digital forensics, where there is...
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