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Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...et al., 1997) advises that you should ask yourself these questions: What is the table about? The title of the table should tell you what it is about. Where has the information come from? The source of the information should be stated. What do the rows and columns represent? The labels for the rows and columns should tell you what they represent. What do you want to know?...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...et impera – divide and rule. However this covered the idea that it was easier to rule over groups in conflict with each other. How can we cope with tricky problems or situations where there is just too much information? The main technique for dealing with such messy situations is decomposition. We can decompose a problem into smaller and smaller parts or chunks until...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...profile you have, this course covers the essential skills and knowledge you need for digital transformation and thriving in a digital world. For some this might feel like they are learning a new language and understanding new digital cultures, but for others it might be more about understanding and developing your existing digital capabilities...The future of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...profile. One of those animals is a lion. We can see it with its jaw wide open. And the animal on the other side, I would guess, with the horns, is perhaps a bull. The lion in particular, I'm aware, is associated with royalty in this context. And so that might tell us something about the provenance of the coin, where it came from and who produced it. ELTON BARKER: And that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...profile of Fanny Hensel (born Mendelssohn), preparing new editions of her songs, and making these available to other performers for free. By the end of this week, you should be able to: have an understanding of historical women composers and where you can start researching them and their music be aware of where you can find scores of works by historical women composers...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...style and material of that pot?) who made and commissioned them (what do we learn from the fact that this pot was produced by a particular workshop in Athens for a rich man in southern Italy?) where they are used (what do we learn from the fact that this pot was used at dinner parties and another in the kitchen?) The more questions you can bring to them, the richer the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...et cetera-- JIM GRUBB That's right. JOHN T. CHAMBERS And to be able to make decisions at the edge, probably, for the vast majority of interfaces. JIM GRUBB And sometimes for machine-to-machine connections, for example. In the video, Jim Grubb, Cisco's Chief Demonstration Officer, and John Chambers, Cisco’s former CEO, during the Cisco Live 2013 keynote demonstration,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...style of Virginia Woolf’s work first, watch this short video from a four part series produced by The Open University, examining the lives, work and influence of women writers:...Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify Woolf’s ideas about time, memory and identity understand the role...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs