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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...de minimis concept, which assumes that there is a level of risk that is so low it can be reasonably ignored. Its name is derived from the common law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...adults in the UK, the rest of Europe and the USA who are very overweight and diagnosed as obese in medical terms through use of the body mass index. However, there are once again debates about what all this really means. Questions have been raised about the relevance of the BMI as a measure of obesity as it does not distinguish between fat and muscle; so, for example,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...DES, triple DES, and AES, which are widely used in financial transactions over the internet and within banks. Let's go back to Alice and Bob. Aware that Eve wants to learn their secret, they choose to use symmetric encryption. The first thing for them to do is to generate a shared key and each to make their own copy. One way of doing this is to meet, discuss their...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...de Football Association, or FIFA as it is more commonly known, itself has experienced significant controversy relating to the internal politics (or the small ‘p’ politics) of the organisation. However, before you delve into FIFA, take a moment to explore what is meant by ‘political’ in this course. Activity 1 Identifying political themes relating to this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...de Dieu by Maître François, between 1475 and 1480 CE. That is not all. This is also a story about Herodotus’ brand of history. At first glance, this episode, on which Herodotus leads on seems curiously trivial, even gossipy. Yet by taking us into the bedroom Herodotus promises insight into power dynamics that have repercussions for an entire kingdom and beyond. Much...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...adults become active again, mate, and start the return journey northwards, the females laying eggs on milkweed plants along the way. None will complete the return journey, and it will be their descendants that reach southern Canada again. Thanks to the work of thousands of citizen scientists who monitor the butterflies every year, more is being learned about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...adults to little kids but in this respect it works if a toddler shouts I hate you mummy you don’t take it personally you don’t think the toddler really hates you and we adults act like that sometimes as well. We’re stressed, we’re unhappy, and we kind of go, nya, at someone when we’re unhappy. But it doesn’t mean that we’re actually that annoyed with that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs