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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...perceptions are changing; problems, solutions, opportunities, ideas, people and outcomes are mixed together in a way that makes interpretation uncertain and their connections unclear. (March, 1982, p. 168) The garbage-can metaphor describes the messy, complex and disordered way in which, at a particular moment in time, all decision makers are simultaneously involved in a...
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...perceptions of what it means to teach and learn online. These need to be addressed as part of the programme. [A photograph of Monkseaton Middle School entrance doors. ‘To care & succeed’ is printed on the doors.] Figure 3: Summary Leading a whole school approach for online learning, may seem daunting, but we hope this course has provided you with new insights that...
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...perceptions that camels store free water in the rumen and utilise water derived from metabolism of the lipids released from the adipose tissue that forms the fatty hump. Although camels have a great deal of water in the rumen and intestine, it is proportionately no more than is present in other ruminants. It is true that since the oxidation of 1 g of fat yields 1.07 g...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...perceptions of how to live in society. Choose ONE to reflect on in Activity 4. Scenario 1: Communities as problem solvers The first definition of sustainability reflects a market-driven perspective. If you take this perspective as a way forward, decisions will need to be made to create industries which solve environmental dilemmas; for example, producing electric cars and...
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...perceptions of online and traditional courses’, Internet and Higher Education, cyfrol 19, tud.(au) 27–35. Parker, R.E. (2013) Redesigning Courses for Online Delivery: Design, Interaction, Media & Evaluation, Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing. Phelps, J. a Reynolds, R. (1998) ‘Summative evaluation of a web-based course in meteorology’ yn Oliver, M. (gol.)...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...perception of a wind turbine or a wind farm is determined by a variety of factors including: turbine size turbine design number of blades colour number of turbines in a wind farm layout of the wind farm extent to which moving rotor blades attract attention. Figure 17 compares a wind turbine with other large constructions in the UK. [Comparison of wind turbines and other...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...perceptions of any future Owenite community scheme. [Figure 8. The agricultural workhouse at Veenhuisen, from An Account of the Poor-Colonies, and Agricultural Workhouses, of the Benevolent Society of Holland, by a member of the Highland Society of Scotland, 1828. This establishment in the Netherlands was one of several agricultural workhouses, including Fredericks-Oord,...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...perception of a big distance between like your lecturers and your tutors and us as students kind of thing. And one of the things that students mentioned that when I was interviewing them was about how they felt that Twitter kind of broke that sort of hierarchy structure and it was, there wasn’t really this perceived, oh you can’t connect with them, you can’t speak...