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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...simple table, perhaps on a spreadsheet (you can download an example here). For any documents you find, you’ll also find it useful to keep records of: the name of the author(s) when it was published the title of the article, report, book or chapter where it was published – i.e., the title of the journal, book or website a link to the document or its DOI (digital object...
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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...simple. Our power stations tend not to have sufficient local opportunity for heat use (e.g. Torness is a long way from housing), and the cost of installing the necessary infrastructure is high. In addition, the waste heat would need to be extracted at a higher temperature to be useful, which marginally reduces the efficiency of electricity production. There is, of course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...simple transformation model in Figure 1 provides a powerful tool for looking at operations in many different contexts. It helps us to analyse and design operations in many types of organisation at many levels. This model can be developed by identifying the boundaries of the operations system through which an organisation's goods or services are provided to its customers...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...simple map of your home. [Drawing of a floorplan of a house.] 2. Now think through a typical week in your home. Pick up to three emotions represented by the emoticons below, representing laughter, happiness, indifference, sadness, upset, grumpiness/anger, and love/affection. Now draw these emoticons on your map, in the places where you remember feeling the emotions you...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...simple problems that have immediate applications, such as students being able to work out how many cans of fizzy drink or bars of chocolate they can buy with the cash they have. Encouraging public interest in mathematics, and ultimately to ensure its continuation by bringing up the next generation of mathematicians. Mathematics develops statistical understanding that...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...code of their software, their patents, and their brand names. By comparison, the physical assets they hold may be relatively low in value. As Dobni (2010, p. 56) notes: This knowledge is fuelled by interaction with customers and value chain members in the competitive cluster. Second, knowledge is power, and for organizations, knowledge only becomes powerful if it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...simples, parfois autobiographiques, et bien souvent à l´improvisation. On filme la vie ! Le cinéma gagne en naturel et en simplicité. Table 2 Cinéma traditionnel contre Nouvelle Vague CINéMA TRADITIONNEL NOUVELLE VAGUE tournages en studio tournages en extérieur caméra de studio caméra légère et portable beaux décors décors naturels acteurs célèbres acteurs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...code that runs well; an end-user may consider it successful if it helps them do their job effectively; and so on. We will consider stakeholders and their role in determining IT success or failure later in this course. You will learn much more about the nature of success and failure in IT systems later in this course. For now, we will use the following definitions: a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs