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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...care’ that we might expect a factory manager would have towards factory workers. Consequentialism: related to setting store by outcomes, however they are achieved. Virtue ethics: concerns the formation of ‘good’ character and presumes ‘good’ people will bring about ‘good’ things. Utilitarianism: concerned with maximising utility, which has been interpreted...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...adult skill development. Find out more here cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Threat landscape:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...care; poor roads and transport links, and lack of employment opportunities. Defining ‘rurality’ is by no means straightforward, but it is important to understand and recognise the benefits and costs of living in a rural area. It is worth recognising that not all rural areas are the same, and that the rural context and rural challenges within each of the four nations...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...careful selection of artists even from far-flung locations, and the preference for one practitioner above another, shows that patrons too were quite capable of discriminating on the basis of artistic prowess. Abbot Suger (c.1081–1151) explained that the twelfth-century windows at Saint-Denis in Paris, for example, were done ‘by the exquisite hands of many masters from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...adults and up to 7 mm in younger people, increasing the amount of light entering the eye by a factor of approximately ten times. The expansion of the pupil takes place quite rapidly – typically in a few seconds. If you remain in dark conditions for long enough a second, slower change takes place, this time in the retina, which is the light-sensitive surface inside your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...careful consideration. Researchers note that drones can be considered part of the Internet of Things (IoT) and are thus themselves at risk of internal and external threats: ‘As part of heterogeneous networks, things have to support advanced security concepts, such as authentication, access control, data protection, confidentiality, cyber-attack prevention, and a high...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...adult to child, from generation to generation. These invisible or ‘intangible’ practices of heritage, such as language, culture, popular song, literature or dress, are as important in helping us to understand who we are as the physical objects and buildings that we are more used to thinking of as ‘heritage’. Another aspect of these practices of heritage is the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...care workers involved in controlling epidemics...Vaccination: 6.3 Asymptomatic carriers - A related problem for disease eradication is seen in some human infectious diseases, where a carrier state develops. One example is typhoid, where 2–5 per cent of individuals become chronically infected, but without any symptoms of the disease. They excrete the typhoid bacteria...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs