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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...techniques to elicit the main interactions of stakeholders with systems analyse issues of power and conflict between stakeholder groups in IT systems...Successful IT systems: 1 Success and failure in IT systems - What makes an IT system a success and what makes it a failure? We have deliberately referred to ‘IT systems’ here rather than a narrower term such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...techniques on how to avoid plagiarism...Developing good academic practice: 1 What is good academic practice? - Good academic practice is about making sure that anyone who reads your work can easily identify your thoughts and ideas on a subject, and can distinguish these from the thoughts and ideas of others. ‘Academic integrity’ is an all-encompassing term....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...techniques you can make sure that the time you spend on taking notes is really worthwhile. TEDMED 2009: Bill Davenhall - Your Health Depends on Where You Live...Week 1: Getting started: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Marshal Anderson and Hélène Pulker. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...techniques being used: The wow factor ‘Wow deals’ is a term used by one supermarket to indicate to customers products being sold below their normal price. Panorama, however, discovered that 11 of the products featured in this promotion had previously been on sale for the same price for the previous six months. In one unethical sales promotion, Panorama found that four...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...techniques towards the design of an interactive product...An introduction to interaction design: 1 What is interaction design - This section introduces interaction design – that is, creating the means by which users communicate with different forms of computing technology in order to perform some activity. The section will: illustrate the scope of interaction and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...techniques do you think a spaceprobe in orbit could use to meet these objectives? Answer Perhaps the most obvious technique to use to find out more about Europa is extensive imaging of the surface, at high enough spatial resolution to identify chaos regions and with high enough spectral resolution to identify salts and other contaminants in the ice. You may also have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...technique to assess the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product, process or service. Second, the triple bottom line, a popular approach to impact measurement developed for assessing results of business activities. Third, the social performance scorecard, an approach that considers social impact in terms of measurable indicators of social...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...techniques, motif has always played a part in prose fiction. Dickens for example, writing over a period of time for serialisation, repeated phrases so readers would instantly recall characters, tone and events. Woolf’s use of repeated phrases is quite different and has multiple effects. For example, before the pageant begins Mrs Manresa hears ‘laughter, down among the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs