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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...technique to help you analyse your own situation...Week 2: Will things stay the same?: 3 Using a PEST analysis to identify external factors - [Described image] Figure 3 In this section, you will learn how to use a PEST analysis to investigate and analyse the external context in which your organisation is located. As you have discovered, PEST analysis is a common method of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...techniques employed by robotic and orbiting spacecraft evaluate the evidence for water on Mars describe the different settings in which water has been in Mars’ past and today understand the implications of finding water on the possibility of finding life...The search for water on Mars: 1 Observing Mars from Earth - Mars appears like a star when observed with the naked...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...techniques. The main outcome of exoplanet searches and characterisation studies carried out using these techniques is a known exoplanet population with a wide variety of physical and orbital characteristics. This course explores the key astrophysical concepts involved in planet formation and how they can be used to explain the great diversity of configurations observed....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...technique. Sometimes it’s as though writers are sitting at our shoulders, whispering in our ears with clear and detailed information about their characters – their feelings, for example, or their motivations. At other times, authors lodge that information in their descriptions of the scene or setting and the objects, for example, that the scene may contain. Read the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...technique of whole room indirect calorimetry. Volunteers live on their own in a small suite of rooms which are sealed from the outside environment. The room can also contain exercise equipment. Food and water are provided through an airlock, and the exact amounts of carbon dioxide produced and oxygen used are measured. It is then possible to calculate an overall energy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...techniques including assignments, examinations, presentations or a written essay, amongst others. As a result, within a curriculum that is constructively aligned, learning and assessment should: have clearly defined learning outcomes demonstrate teaching and learning activities and methods that lead to the achievement of the defined learning outcomes objectively assess...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...techniques of oral poetry. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR Our tale, the Odyssey, starts with a nymph, a king and the aftermath of war at Troy. It's a decade since Odysseus left for his home, Ithaca, after the Trojan War. For seven years, he's been ensnared by the nymph Calypso. But he's pining for his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. The goddess Athena is rather a fan of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...Techniques for engaging young people who offend are concerned with the question of how to gain young people’s interest and willing participation in interventions or programmes of interventions intended to prevent or reduce offending. ‘Engagement’ suggests a set of objectives around developing young people’s personal motivation and commitment to involvement in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs