Understanding Records and Archives: Principles and Practices, Winter 2009
Provides an understanding of why societies, cultures, organizations, and individuals create and keep records. Presents cornerstone terminology, concepts, and practices used in records management and archival administration. Examines the evolution of methods and technologies used to create, store, organize, and preserve records and the ways in which organizations and individuals use archives and records for ongoing operations, accountability, research, litigation, and organizational memory. Parti
Understanding cardiovascular diseases
Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day and, in that time, pumps about 23,000 litres of blood around your body. But what happens when it doesn’t work as well as it should? This unit explains what happens in cardiovascular disease, when the heart
Understanding Evolution
People have misconceptions about evolution. Some are simple misunderstandings; ideas that develop in the course of learning about evolution, possibly from school experiences and/or from the media. Other misconceptions may stem from purposeful attempts to interfere with the teaching of evolution. Science teachers must learn to treat all student questions with respect and initially to accept each question as the reflection of a legitimate desire to learn. However, some questions may well be desig
Keeping physically active
This RLO describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.
Mass grave in Japan
A former garbage dump is used as a mass grave site for hundreds who perished in Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Portugal's warning after downgrade
Portugal's government blamed higher rates paid at a debt auction on Wednesday on the opposition's refusal to back its latest austerity plans, warning a political standoff could force it to seek a bailout
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Brief Edition
According to the website, "It is no accident that many sociology instructors and students are first drawn to sociology because they want to learn a body of knowledge that could help them make a difference in the world at large. Steve Barkan’s Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World is designed for this audience. It presents a sociological understanding of society but also a sociological perspective on how to change society, while maintaining the structure and contents of the bes
Safety Signs and Information: Understanding Saftey Signs
Understanding Safety Signs. Topic 2, extracted from the Safety Signs and Information resource. In this topic you will understand the appropriate action to take for common safety signs.
Understanding 2 and 3 dimensional engineering drawings
There are several ways to draw 3 dimensional objects, eg, using perspective, isometric or oblique drawing methods. In engineering, a technique called orthographic projection is used to show a three dimensional object as a two dimensional drawing. Orthographic projection allows all possible views of a three dimensional object to be shown in a two dimensional drawing.
Understanding the Molecular Networks of Hydrogen Production
Eric Schadt, Ph.D., Pacific Biosciences
Environmental concerns over the use of fossil fuels and their role in climate change have sparked research on the development of alternative fuels. Hydrogen is a clean burning alternative fuel that can be produced in large amounts by some bacteria. We have embarked on a systems level approach to dissect metabolic and regulatory networks necessary for nitrogenase-catalyzed hydrogen production by the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas. Rhodopseudomonas is an ideal
Understanding Web 2.0 and Its Implications for e-Learning
<p>A whole new range of web-based tools and services now provides learners with the opportunity to create<br />
their own digital learning materials, personal learning environments, and social networks. What are the<br />
implications for the design of learning materials, workplace training, and accreditation of learners?<br />
This chapter focuses on integrating educational principles of virtual learning with the application of<br />
these new technologies. The arg
Understanding Web 2.0 and Its Implications for e-Learning
<p>A whole new range of web-based tools and services now provides learners with the opportunity to create<br />
their own digital learning materials, personal learning environments, and social networks. What are the<br />
implications for the design of learning materials, workplace training, and accreditation of learners?<br />
This chapter focuses on integrating educational principles of virtual learning with the application of<br />
these new technologies. The arg
Understanding Web 2.0 and Its Implications for e-Learning
<p>A whole new range of web-based tools and services now provides learners with the opportunity to create<br />
their own digital learning materials, personal learning environments, and social networks. What are the<br />
implications for the design of learning materials, workplace training, and accreditation of learners?<br />
This chapter focuses on integrating educational principles of virtual learning with the application of<br />
these new technologies. The arg
8.7 Hinduism as ‘a world religion’: a more recent understanding
This unit will give you an opportunity to think about some of the key concepts and methods of the discipline of Religious Studies. You will meet examples of different forms of religious practice and belief, mostly from Britain and India.
Capital Ideas: Understanding Various Forms of Capital and their Implications for the Work of Educati
Jerry Johnson,
Michael E. Hess II,
William Larson,
Jeffrey Wise
This theoretical/conceptual paper consider
Article :: From Flash to Flex: Understanding Flex Events
Kris Hadlock explains Flex events and how to incorporate them into object-oriented code.
Article :: Understanding Resolution in Adobe Photoshop CS4
This chapter covers issues of resolution in Photoshop CS4, from pixels and images to resampling to using the image size dialog.
Understanding What Customers Want - Raw Materials
These are the raw materials for a learning activity about understanding, segmenting and targeting customers
Understanding contemporary society
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. This module introduces students to a range of approaches in social analysis. Through introductions to key concepts, theorists and research studies in the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies and social policy, students will be equipped with the skills necessary for more advanced study of contemporary society. Two routes to reading this module's contents are offered. Those who prefer to read on screen can navig
