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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...type questions you usually only get one attempt). If you get the answer right first time you will get more marks than for a correct answer the second or third time. Therefore, please be aware that for the two badge quizzes it is possible to get all the questions right but not score 50% and be eligible for the badge on that attempt. If one of your answers is incorrect you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...types of trauma to the living. It is a specialty of medicine and a sub-speciality of pathology. Figure 1 Fingerprint Forensic DNA – the use of biological science to identify individuals by their DNA profile, using genetic samples such as blood, semen and saliva. The concept was first designed by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in 1985. Figure 2 DNA...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...types of place, in locations that are widely geographically spaced. One of these is a ‘natural’ place, the other is humanly made (a building, albeit a very grand one). In what ways might we characterise the similarities between the two places? What qualities can we find that link them? Although they are very different, both of these places are considered to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Article 10 mins
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...types of music, musicians may have to oblige (or, perhaps, move on to find new patrons). If the mode of reception changes, as for example when music begins to be disseminated via recordings or radio broadcasts, this too may have an impact on the kind of music produced. The reception of music can influence musical events – in other words, the reception of music affects...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...types of innovations that are available and the impact this has on the individuals using them. You will also gain an insight into the potential advantages and disadvantages of these innovations. ...This free course, Innovation in health and social care: social and historical, focuses on digital technologies and innovations in health and social care and explores the types...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...types of sustainability are spoken about: weak and strong (Dresner, 2002). Sustainability can also be seen in economic terms, including the idea of natural capital that was used in the Brundtland Report (Pearce et al, 1989). The underlying principle here being that if, for example, something is taken out of the earth, something else renewable must be substituted as...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...type of sand grain on a beach?' and 'How can solid rocks bend into huge folds, or flow like a liquid over geological time?' Minerals and rocks are also, of course, natural resources that provide the inorganic raw materials for almost everything humans use. A good scientific understanding of their origins, occurrence and properties helps to maximise their potential...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs