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In 2008, Siemens and Downes delivered an online course called "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge". [12] It covered connectivism as content while attempting to implement some of their ideas. The course was free to anyone who wished to participate, and over 2000 people worldwide enrolled.
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by more than 30% since the start of the industrial age and is higher now than at any time in at least the past 650,000 years. This increase is a direct result of burning fossil fuels, broad-scale deforestation and other human activity.
A discourse marker is a word or a phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of discourse.Since their main function is at the level of discourse (sequences of utterances) rather than at the level of utterances or sentences, discourse markers are relatively syntax-independent and usually do not change the truth conditional meaning of the sentence. [1]
List of cognitive biases; List of common misconceptions; List of memory biases; List of paradoxes; Outline of public relations – Overview of and topical guide to public relations; Map–territory relation – Relationship between an object and a representation of that object (confusing map with territory, menu with meal)
Human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequences of actions. Agriculture The arts – vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines.
Fashion Activism uses a participatory approach to a political activity. [68] Craft activism or craftivism is a type of visual activism that allows people to bring awareness to political or social discourse. [69] It is a creative approach to activism as it allows people to send short and clear messages to society. [70]
Aristotle distinguished between intrinsic and extrinsic causes. Matter and form are intrinsic causes because they deal directly with the object, whereas efficient and finality causes are said to be extrinsic because they are external. [8] Thomas Aquinas demonstrated that only those four types of causes can exist and no others. He also ...
The total number of people living in extreme absolute poverty globally, by the widely used metric of $1.00/day (in 1990 U.S. dollars) has decreased over the last several decades, but most people surveyed in several countries incorrectly think it has increased or stayed the same. However, this depends on the poverty line calculation used.