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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...writing a brief description of the attack which might explain it to other learners, and write it in the space below. Examples of things you might put into your description are: the CIA concepts that are relevant to the example you have chosen whether malware was involved in the attack, and what type of malware it was the asset that was affected by the attack...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...write a short summary (no more than 200 words) that addresses the following questions. Briefly, what is the example about? Where did you first learn about this new development in the sciences? What first attracted you to this information? An example is then included in the discussion below, to give you an idea of the level of detail that you can cover in around 200 words....
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...writing, which he promised me when we last parted. However, I have spoken to another officer of one of the ships which were with him, who was himself on the Major’s ship until they reached the island of Saint Thomas, and is indeed the person who had care of the Clocks, and from whom we had the first report on them 14 or 15 months ago [during an earlier voyage]. ‘I do...
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Article 10 mins
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...Writing at Sapiens.org, they ponder what the flag being marched behind actually means in a modern sporting context: In the last few years, well-heeled Persian Gulf states have attracted athletes from other countries by offering them money, training facilities, and the possibility of qualifying for the Olympics more easily than in their home countries. The diminutive but...
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Article 5 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...write up the results of what he had seen and collected during his voyages the first text he produced was entitled Essay on the Geography of Plants (Humboldt 1807). In this book Humboldt set out his vision of a world in which the Earth surface, the oceans, the atmosphere, and the creatures living in them, were intimately connected in what he called a “general physics of...
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Article 20 mins
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...write. We do not think it right that we should know nothing but work and suffering, from Monday morning to Saturday night, to make others rich. Do, good gentlemen, inquire carefully into our concern. [Submission from Manchester's Factory Children Committee sent to the House of Commons in 1836.] The section of the IPEC slideshow dealing with the ‘Historical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...writing, it’s at the bottom of the home page) will give you an idea of the learning strategy that OLI proposes, including ‘learn by doing’. This captioned video from The Open Learning Initiative begins by arguing that higher education faces a major challenge: ‘We’re asking faculty and institutions to teach many, many, many more students. And we’re giving them...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...writes in Personality and Sense of Humor, “comedy and satire possess a common denominator in that both try to change or reform society by means of humor. The two forms together constitute the best illustration there is of the social function of humor.” You don’t have to look hard for examples of comics placing social justice at the centre of their work. New...
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Article 10 mins