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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...account of the content of something you have read, heard or viewed without details Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 5 items in each list. Report Short definition and explanation Essay Short-answer exercise Summary Match each of the previous list items with an item from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...account of external factors such as the time you have or the circumstances in which you study? Are you basing your judgement on your own evaluation of your intellectual capacities? Do energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? What would it take to improve your prospects of success, measured by whatever criterion is important to you? Can you act to...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...account depending on how you interpret ‘distinctive’. … Many quarters of the media came to the conclusion that Trott was suffering from depression … In an hour-long interview … Trott revealed that he had in fact not been experiencing depression, but ‘burnout’. He had become ‘physically and emotionally spent’, with perceived technical weaknesses in his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...account of such an encounter. You will probably notice that the author uses two types of argument in his discussion of the experience. The first is argument by analogy, which involves comparing two things in order to highlight a perceived similarity. By its nature, an analogy offers a simplified view of an idea or process – an illustration, rather than a detailed...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...account your personal circumstances. You’ll also be looking at the importance of networking and the different types of networks that you can use to help you shape and achieve your career goals. Remember, it’s always useful to discuss your ideas or plans with a colleague, current employer, or your family. Hearing other people’s views can be an important part of your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...accounts of the nature and legacies of empire. There are political volumes about diplomacy and the legislative frameworks of empire. Military histories of imperial war and conflict. Economic theses on the role of structural inequality and underdevelopment. Cultural histories of the effects of colonialism on everyday practices and identities. Historians who work with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...accounting department within a larger organisation is supplying a service to other parts of the organisation. The purpose of the operational team is usually specified in terms of the level of service or the quality of the goods supplied. Operational teams usually have well-defined roles and responsibilities. While the idea of team roles is typically applied to project...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...accounts for the additional uncertainty inherent in estimating population parameters from sample data. Importantly, the degree of “fatness” in these tails is not constant. It depends on the sample size, a concept we will explore in more detail in the next section. Generally, as the sample size increases, the t-distribution more closely resembles the normal...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs