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Fundamental skills for how we live, work, socialise and play.
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

This free course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you.

Free course
24 hrs
Network security free course icon level 3: advanced icon

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Network security

Encryption of files and firewalls are just some of the security measures that can be used in security. This free course, Network security, which assumes you have a substantial knowledge of computing, helps to explain the intricacies of the continually changing area of network security by studying the main issues involved in achieving a ...

Free course
25 hrs
Learn to code for data analysis free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

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Learn to code for data analysis

This free course will teach you how to write your own computer programs, one line of code at a time. You'll learn how to access open data, clean and analyse it, and produce visualisations. You will also learn how to write up and share your analyses, privately or publicly.

Free course
24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation free course icon level 1: introductory icon

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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

The future of the workplace is continuing to evolve, and digital transformation is accelerating, requiring new digital capabilities, behaviours and understanding. There has been a widening of the digital divide and data shows that in the UK the skills gap is growing with a shortage of people with digital skills. ​ Nearly all jobs have some ...

Free course
11 hrs
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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

According to mathematics we'd all die in a zombie apocalypse but nature and computer science offer us more optimistic outcomes. 

Article
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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

Dr Clara Mancini tells us how Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) is expanding the design of interactive systems beyond the human species.

Video
15 mins