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Modelling object-oriented software – an introduction free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Digital & Computing

Modelling object-oriented software – an introduction

How do you model a software system? This free course, Modelling object-oriented software an introduction, will help you to work through the processes necessary to produce a conceptual model, by analysing the requirements document to identify classes and associations appropriate for modelling the system domain, together with their respective ...

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20 hrs
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Machines, minds and computers free course icon level 3: advanced icon

Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

Computers are becoming smarter and may soon become intelligent. This free course, Machines, minds and computers, looks at what intelligence is, how computers may become so, and whether they ever will really be intelligent. It is aimed at people interested in understanding what intelligence and thinking really are, and who want to understand the ...

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10 hrs
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How is identity data creating headaches for large companies? article icon

Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

Increasingly the costs and risks of holding data are turning toxic for businesses. Bhargav Mitra and Robert McCausland explain why.

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Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

Writing shortly after Donald Trump assumed office, Dr John Jewell observed that a new role hadn't changed the President's social media behaviour.

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5 mins
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Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success? article icon

Money & Business

Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?

A visit to the Huawei campus finds a company open to naps in the office but against bombast. It's a formula that appears to be working.

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Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

In a wide-ranging discussion, Ecobank's Edward George shares his personal views about the future of banks, and digital strategy across African markets.

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Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

Life is full of risk. In this free course, Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction, 'risk' describes the probability and consequences of harm or, at worst, disaster. Risk management involves many stakeholders and integrated management systems help to ensure that safety, quality, environmental and business risks ...

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15 hrs
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Digital & Computing

A taste of digital management from OpenLearn

Interested in business management, technology management or computing and IT? You're in the right place - here's just a taste of materials you can explore here, now, for free on OpenLearn.

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Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble? video icon

Money & Business

Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?

As it launches a new model, Apple is hoping that its brand will persuade enough people to dig deep into their pockets. Loizos Heracleous explores Apple's thinking.

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5 mins
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Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics article icon

Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

An introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics.

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Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

Subhashish Panigrahi explains what he learned while documenting the language of his own community.

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5 mins
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Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

In new research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find ...

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