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Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...techniques. Compensatory strategies help the learner make up for missing knowledge: for example, by deducing meaning from the context in listening and reading tasks. Affective strategies have been shown to be significantly related to proficiency in second language acquisition. These include the ability to identify one’s mood and anxiety level, talk about feelings and...
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...techniques in a rudimentary way...Introducing philosophy: 1 Approaching philosophy - The 1960s show Beyond the Fringe included a sketch satirizing philosophy. In it, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett play two Oxbridge philosophers discussing the role of philosophy in everyday life. It concludes like this: Jon: … the burden is fair and square on your shoulders to explain...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...techniques. There has been a resurgence in organic viticulture in the region, with Mas Martinet farm leading in new techniques. Organic vintners need to have high quality data to meet organic standards, as well as to ensure the ongoing health of their crops. The project has many different stakeholders, including data operators and software developers, agrarian...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...techniques? Discussion You may have found ‘glitter bacteria’ between your fingers or on the backs of your hands even after hand washing with soap. These places are frequently missed when washing hands, allowing bacteria to be transmitted. 3. What hand-washing advice would you give to healthcare workers hoping to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?...
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...techniques to do facial recognition. So how this works is you create a training set with examples of faces. This is a face. This is a face. This is not a face. And over time you can teach a computer how to recognise other faces. However, if the training sets aren’t really that diverse, any face that deviates too much from the established norm will be harder to detect,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...techniques must be developed so that the right information is provided at the right time, to the right people and things. Organisations are able to achieve a significant competitive advantage by adapting their business processes through the use of IoE technologies...Session 1: What is the IoE?: 1.2.7 Internet of everything and Cisco - Cisco is uniquely positioned in that...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...techniques. This is unfair, as management can often be innovative, whereas leadership can be a code word for the very old-fashioned idea of ‘defer to the person in charge’. That said, it is our case that leadership does indeed offer something distinctive to management. If management seeks to make work more predictable and efficient, leadership disrupts, bringing out...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...techniques such as reuse, sharing, leasing, repair and recycling to extend products life and reduce waste. * Closed system A physical system where there is no transfer of matter and energy into it or out of it. * Degrowth An economic approach that prioritises human wellbeing rather than growth and aims to reduce the throughputs (use of resources and creation of adverse...