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Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...analysis, where the relationships and links between the items identified are explored; diagnosis, where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to intervention are examined...Diagramming for development 1: Bounding realities: 2.1 When to use each diagram - For each diagram description below there is a suggested Activity which is itself an animated tutorial....
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...data and space as represented on a map...Why maps are made: 1.1 What makes a map? - [Map 1] Map 1 The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, one of 56,000 photographs taken for the Millennium Map – 2000's answer to the Domesday Book (Source: The Guardian, 4 November 1999, p.1; image produced by getmapping.com PLC) During 1999 The Millennium Mapping company launched a project...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...analysis. Of course, interviews can also be properly done and lead to solid understandings of social matters. Ethnographic methods have been used to challenge stereotypes and prejudices but also to further colonial oppression. Similarly, statistical methods of investigation do not only create positivistic knowledge for regressive or conservative ends; they can be used to...
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Article 5 mins
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...analysis shows that condensation around tiny particles significantly increased cloud formation and warmed the surrounding air, intensifying the so-called deep convective cloud systems that are responsible for causing thunderstorms in the Amazonian tropics. “These tiny particles act [by] forming cloud droplets after all the larger particles in a warm and humid...
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Article 5 mins
Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...analysis, they’re written really clearly. I don't think you need any kind of academic background or university level background to be able to access those.’ ‘Intermediate and advanced courses, such as Business models in strategic management, are slightly harder and I've worked with students to support them sometimes with those, but I actually use those more advanced...
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Article 5 mins
How race, gender, age and class affects the way people are perceived
Health, Sports & Psychology

How race, gender, age and class affects the way people are perceived

...Accessed 18 January 2017). 6 Eyewitnesses are better at recognising and identifying members of their own race. Behrman, B. W. and Davey, S. L. (2001) ‘Eyewitness identification in actual criminal cases: an archival analysis’, Law and Human Behavior, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 475–91....
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Article 10 mins
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...data and information about the Moon interpret simple tables express, manipulate and compare very small numbers...The Moon: 1 Observing the Moon - Activity 1 Timing: 0 hours 30 minutes Try to make out features on the surface of the Moon, even if you have no optical aid available. If you have the use of a pair of binoculars you will probably be surprised by how much you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an...
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Article 10 mins