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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...mode of engaging with a situation of interest), how you envisage adapting your practice to the circumstances (contextualising) and how you plan to manage the overall activity...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 3.1 The state of ‘Being’ - The structure of Section 3 is set out in Figure 25. Use this as a way of keeping track of the argument I am...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...mode of action of drugs apply this knowledge and understanding to address familiar and unfamiliar situations express unit concepts in an objective and factually correct way...Pain and aspirin: 1 Why does it hurt? - The relief or avoidance of pain must be one of the major driving forces behind medical research. In this course we start the discussion about relief of pain....
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...mode of transport (get off the train, get into the plane), etc. In short, you first need to see the big picture, before you can fill in the details. When writing a text that has argumentation (another way to say that it has a reasoned conclusion), there are techniques and tools to figure out the big picture first. A key tool that you can use is that of an argument map....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...et al., 2005)...Understanding and managing risk: 2.2 The risk management process - An organisation’s attitude towards the various forms of risk to which it is exposed should be a direct interpretation of its business strategy. This has implications both ways: the strategy itself must address the appetite and capacity for risk within the business and the systems and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...modes of study are central to the humanities. But they are no longer the only ones in the researcher's toolbox. The last 30 years have seen the growth of digital documents and artifacts that are of great interest to humanities researchers. The field of digital humanities is developing methods to study the humanities with the help of the digital and to interrogate the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...et al., 2005). A YouGov survey found that 35 per cent of those polled were kept awake at night worrying about their debts, with the respondents citing debt as the number one cause of family breakdown (YouGov, 2006). Therefore, despite the fact that the data on debt across the whole of the UK show that the value of household assets is much greater than liabilities, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...et al. (1996) ‘Continental break up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic’, Earth Science Reviews, 40, Elsevier; Figure 3d T.C. Pharaoh (1999) ‘Palaeozoic terranes and their lithospheric boundaries within the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ)’, Tectonophysics, 314, Elsevier; Figure 3e J. Golonka and D. Ford (2000) ‘Pangean (Late
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...et al., 2014). Although most AMHPs are social workers, they do not tend to undertake AMHP duties full-time once qualified. Their role as an AMHP is to provide a balance to that of the medical practitioner who is also involved as a ‘responsible clinician’. Social workers who are AMHPs (as well as social workers who are not AMHPs) will undertake a range of other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs