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Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...technique for the other learning outcomes. It would also be useful to read through the earlier work in your notebook. Then, if you are working through all the units in this series, you are ready to begin S182_2 Studying mammals: the insect hunters...Studying mammals: A winning design: Conclusion - This free course provided an introduction to studying Environment &...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...techniques. Alternatively, physical properties can be used to infer particular aspects of a mineral's internal structure. Several physical properties of minerals can be readily observed in hand specimen and can be used for recognising and distinguishing different minerals. In this course you will do this using the Digital Geology Kit, which is introduced in the next...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...techniques such as biography, content analysis, critical crime history, deconstruction and ethnography. Holds that the criminological agenda should be expanded to include those social harms ignored or underplayed in dominant discourse, such as gendered and racialised violence, poverty, war, crimes of the powerful, environmental crime, state sanctioned violence and crimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...techniques with which to assess trends in engagement and an associated array of approaches to effect some change. Thus, aspiration can more feasibly be translated into action...Employee engagement: References - de Botton, A. (2009) The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, London, Hamish Hamilton. Gallup Consulting (2009) 'Employee engagement [online] www.gallup.com/ consulting/...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...techniques. In this way the learning cannot be controlled in the same way as in a transmission model as it is difficult to predict learning outcomes too specifically, or that each student teacher (or young person) will experience exactly the same, or make the same meanings and connections as others in the same context. Therefore the challenging aspects of this approach...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...techniques, such as radio transmitters and bat detectors, but also the tactics that scientists use to investigate problems. In this section, you learn about the importance of hypotheses and coming to logical conclusions. This way of thinking is hugely important in science, but it isn't the only way scientists operate and things are not always as logical and tidy as they...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...technique called short-interval control. That’s the start point, in a way. So every two hours or more, people are thinking about the previous two hours, they might be thinking about the next two hours, and what can they change and improve even at that level. Then there are weekly forums across all the shifts for looking back and looking at trends, how things are going....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...techniques for recalling them. Note that the English translations include the personal pronoun ‘I’, although no word for ‘I’ is supplied in Greek. It is embodied in the ending -ω. Greek personal pronouns like ἐγώ (‘I’) exist, but are retained for special occasions, such as emphasis. ἄγω I lead βαίνω I go ἔχω I have λέγω I say παύω I...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs