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An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...everyday speech we often refer colloquially to the powerful politician, the energetic child, the working mother and the efficient administrator. We use these terms imprecisely, and often wrongly, compared with their scientific definitions...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: 2.1 Some basic concepts - Energy is defined as the capacity to do work, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...Everyday digital skills - Think about the digital skills you use in everyday life from when you get up to when you go to bed, outside of your work environment and the support you have there for using the required technology. The chances are you figured out how to use a piece of technology or software yourself, or asked a partner/friend/child to tell you how to do...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of machinic governance, might just as...
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Article 15 mins
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...everyday object you might find at home or at work. So another approach to identifying the object could be to take it to a museum and ask an expert curator to identify it. In the twenty-first century we can also use the internet to help identify objects. However, using a search engine would be even less helpful than wandering around a large museum hoping to spot something...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...everyday language ‘liable to be killed’ means ‘likely to be killed’ but here the word has a different meaning: it establishes who, morally speaking, may be killed.) We might think about this as follows: imagine two soldiers confronting each other. If they are morally equal, then they must have the same moral rights as each other. In war, this means the right to...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...everyday life and, as a result, discussions about it regularly make the headlines. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury has made public statements about the level of personal indebtedness in the UK (The Times, 2008)! Debt is regularly featured in the media with stories about how much people have borrowed, how a proportion of borrowers encounter difficulties in making...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...help you remember and define the terms relating to malware. The Threatsaurus is a plain-English guide, to help IT managers and end users understand the threats posed by malicious software. The Threatsaurus includes: an A–Z glossary on computer and data security threats practical tips to stay safe from email scams, identity theft, malware and other threats a guide to Sophos’s security software and hardware. Download the ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...English language at this time). The popularity of ‘health foods’ (such as ‘Hovis’ wholemeal bread) and vegetarianism grew from the mid-nineteenth century to become a mass movement in Germany and surrounding states by 1900, although it was much less popular in Britain. The quest for a healthy diet was closely linked with other movements – such as unorthodox...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs