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My career goal: digital
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: digital

...systems critically and effectively. The range of free courses below give you some grounding knowledge in these areas. Development and coding Computing code is the building blocks of software systems and websites. There is an increasing demand for workers skilled in this area to design and develop software systems. The free courses below look at some of these finer skills....
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How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...systems have made updating relatively simple. If you want to ensure your machine is being kept up-to-date, here’s how to do it on some of the most common: Microsoft Windows 10 By default, Windows 10 performs regular checks for updates from Microsoft. The update is then automatically downloaded and installed on your computer. Windows will warn you if it needs to restart...
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Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...System (ANS) is key to our physical and psychological health and is responsible for our body’s involuntary and essential activities such responses to stress and threat (Ziegler, 2012; Glick et al., 2016). The ANS consists of two sub-systems that are considered to work opposite to each other: the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the Parasympathetic Nervous System...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...system (ANS), is highly responsive to stress, and most of the communication is automatic and unconscious. The goal of the autonomic nervous system is to maintain homeostasis, and it does so by utilising its two subsystems – the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). If a stress response is triggered, it sends signals to the...
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The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...systems are constructed? Did you know that they underpin the majority of the managed data storage in computer systems? This free course, The database development life cycle, has been designed to give you an overview of the developmental lifecycle for a database system, explaining the importance of data analysis and highlighting how database development differs from...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...system and consider the implications of this for computational theories of mind. At the end, I'll try to draw some conclusions and set the scene for the course ahead. Some of the material in the course is historical, some technical – all of it is relevant to the theme of this course: humanity's quest to build intelligent machines. This OpenLearn course provides a sample...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...systems of empire'? This free course, How do empires work?, introduces these questions by briefly sketching in the dramatic events of the Anglo-Chinese conflict over Hong Kong from 1839 to 1842...How are empires ruled? How do military, economic, logistic and cultural constructs combine to create 'systems of empire'? This free course, How do empires work?, introduces these...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
Nature & Environment

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age

...system’s ancient past, we found it was highly sensitive to climate warming 130,000 years ago. Our new study published in Nature Geoscience showed that the Indian summer monsoon pulled heat and moisture into the northern hemisphere when Earth was entering a warmer climate around 130,000 years ago. This caused tropical wetlands to expand northwards – habitats that act...
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