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Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...management and key management services...Network security: 9.1 Introduction - In this section I shall discuss two major approaches used to restrict access to networks – passwords and firewalls...Network security: 9.2 Passwords - I have introduced encryption keys in previous sections. A password can also be thought of as a type of key in as much as it enables the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course examines the relationships between race and ethnicity and crime, criminalisation and criminal justice. It sets out why critical perspectives are concerned about the problematic ways in which race and crime have been – and continue to be – connected. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...project management, or I could do something different, which is to start managing people more and perhaps get to the point where I have my own team. Which I think sounds like something I might be interested in actually. MALE SPEAKER It's tough though, to be in a crossroads. I mean, I remember myself, when I was at a career crossroads - it's probably 20 years ago now - but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...Introduction - In this course you will be learning about a neurodevelopmental condition called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. A neurodevelopmental condition occurs when childhood development differs from a typical trajectory. In the first session of this course you will cover the prevalence of ADHD and how it is experienced by those who have the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Project Jim Skea's interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer JS: = Jim Skea, Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow RH: Jim Skea thanks for agreeing to be interviewed by us. Can I start by asking you when, was it that you first got interested in energy? JS: I first got interested in energy way back, it was actually during the first energy crisis which was...
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Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...management. So many projects fail because consideration of the human element is omitted, or badly covered by the project manager. ‘Systems’ has helped me to grapple with the complexities. Your next question may well be: ‘But will systems thinking work for me?’. I can't answer this but urge you to read on and discover this for yourself. What I can say is that among...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse

...managers to discover what the poor of London could expect for their Christmas Day. The following is an extract of their report...Celebration of Christmas Day amongst the poor inmates of the metropolitan and suburban workhouses [Caricature of poor people at a workhouse having dinner; by Phiz] A view of a typical 1840 workhouse meal In the following will be found succinctly...
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A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...with Sigourney Weaver as the sinister Warden and Jon Voight playing an odious guard, Mr Sir. The author has said that his main aim in his books is to make them enjoyable. The moral element has to be secondary to the pleasure provided. Certainly, despite the suffering it describes, ‘Holes’ manages to be a humorous novel and, ultimately, it proves to be truly uplifting....
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