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Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...public key cryptography, sidesteps the key distribution problem because each user creates their own keys: the private key, which they keep safe and never distribute the public key, which can be sent to anyone with whom they want to exchange encrypted information. Unlike with symmetric encryption, the two keys behave differently: the public key is the only key that can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...public, reassurance of the public, and preventing and detecting crime. So the output is that we do those things, that we protect the public, the public feel reassured by what their police force is doing, and that we prevent and detect crime. So, everything we do is designed to do one of those things. They expect us to respond to their phone call. So, when they ring us, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...public may not be aware of the number of incidents because almost three-quarters (72%), on average, of the insider incidents are handled internally without legal action or the involvement of law enforcement’ (CERT Insider Threat Center, 2010). The estimate of 1,000 attacks per hour is based on the BIS Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2014. We took the number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...public debate about the arts. Gill and I have also contributed by making a Civilisations poster, which you can order for free (and teachers and parents are encouraged to order one for classrooms!) Luckily we've also been able to use some of the footage shot for Civilisations on the third-level module which overlaps with it, A344, Art and its Global Histories. Students on...
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Activity 5 mins
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...public company where he had also been Chair was a ‘doddle’ compared to chairing Oxfam. So what are some of the challenges of running a large charity like Oxfam? An important difference between a charity and a business is that whereas a business raises most of its money from its customers a charity has to fundraise from a different group of people to those the...
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Article 10 mins
About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...public awareness of the strategic importance of meaningful and effective communication between individuals and groups and are confident that the short courses offered by the centre will make a valuable and much-needed contribution to fostering creative curiosity and transformative understanding between people, both locally and globally. In fulfilling its mission, the...
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Video 5 mins
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...public participation during the ‘Who Are We?’ event, and learn how their interactions may give us insights that challenge stereotypes and representations communicated in mainstream media. In addition, you will be able to explore an example of a collaboration between academics from Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project through an...
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Article 5 mins
Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?
Society, Politics & Law

Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?

...publicity on local radio and newspapers. Using borrowed equipment, speeds were monitored and 'alarming data' was uncovered, including a motorcycle travelling at 104mph though the 40 mph zone. A petition signer who is also a councillor has said that plans are being drafted to reduce speed limits quite significantly in order to 'make cutting the number of deaths and...
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Article 5 mins