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Digital & Computing
Digital communications
Optical-fibre communications became commercially viable in the 1970s and innovation continues today. This free course, Digital communications, will illustrate how very high data rates can be transmitted over long distances through optical fibres. You will learn how these fibres are linked, examine the technology used and assess the future ...
Digital & Computing
Designing the user interface: text, colour, images, moving images and sound
Why is the way something looks important? Text, colour, images, moving images and sound all interact to produce a user-friendly environment within a user interface. This free course, Designing the user interface, will help you understand the effect each software component has on the user and explain how a consistent and thoughtful application of...
Digital & Computing
Data and processes in computing
This free course, Data and processes in computing, will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated.
Health, Sports & Psychology
How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
How can we avoid the stress and anxiety associated with the digital age? Dr Gini Harrison and Dr Mathijs Lucassen give us five tips...
Digital & Computing
Cyber Security
What is cyber security? What do we need to know to keep us safe?
Science, Maths & Technology
Software and the law
In this free course, Software and the law, you'll look at the laws relevant to software and its use, taking a global perspective. A major part of this course is devoted to intellectual-property law, the issue of who owns software and digital content and how that ownership can be protected using instruments like copyright and patents. We also...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Are selfies a terrible thing?
Is the rise of the selfie a sign of a culture collapsing into narcissism - or is there something positive in the trend of arm's length self portraiture?
Society, Politics & Law
Gender, IT and economic growth
Does gender matter to the world's fastest growing economies? Parvati Raghuram explores how the labour driving many Rising Powers is gendered.
Education & Development
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
We are inviting all students and professionals to present their views about technology-supported approaches to assessment in a two-step study.
Science, Maths & Technology
An introduction to interaction design
From apps, phones and business systems to wearables, the Web and the Internet of Things, interactive products have become part of everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what ...
Science, Maths & Technology
Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
The innocent blinking lights on your router in the corner might not be so innocent after all...
Digital & Computing
How you can be more secure than the President
To keep your digital world protected, you don't need to build a border wall - just follow some good security housekeeping advice