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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...systems, their designs have become more sophisticated. But in essence, they’re much the same as they were when they first went global. And their future seems likely to depend on these essential qualities and purposes continuing to be relevant as communications technology develops. KB: There are a number of different ways I approach this question. Firstly, I firmly...
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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...system performance (care) professional development (learning). Thinking about what these three areas mean (in relation to the healthcare system with which you are most familiar), what do you consider to be important examples of each of these three areas? You may want to use an internet search to see what aspects of your healthcare system are being subject to quality...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...thinking machines dates back to antiquity. Renaissance craftsmen built complex automatons to try to simulate intelligent behaviour. However, the possibility of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI) had to wait until the arrival of programmable computers in the twentieth century. Since then there have been several failed attempts. That was until the advent of modern “Deep...
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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...think critically about what needs to happen for meaningful, lasting cybersecurity improvements while focusing only on near-term problems. So as 2017 unfolds, instead of falling prey to cyber fatigue and tolerating the “status quo cyber,” we should capitalize on the global trend toward radical change in taking some new approaches to internet security thinking. That...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...systems of rabbits, or the pollination of flowering plants, suggest that much school sex education in the UK in the 1950s and ‘60s, was carried out through the descriptions, though not the observations, of the reproductive habits of plants and non-human animals. It seems likely that boys, especially if educated in the public school (i.e. fee-paying) boarding system, may...
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What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...systems, and classroom practice...If you were asked to describe an ‘inclusive classroom’ or an ‘inclusive education system’, what would it look like? Who would the learners be? What and how would they be learning? In the past 30 years there has been a global move towards education that includes all learners, no matter who they are or where they are from. This...
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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...systems in the UK. What you think about the boundaries that separate children from adults – what makes a child a child and an adult an adult – is very important to the issues you’ll learn about in this course. Ideas about childhood and adulthood differ from culture to culture and over historical time. These ideas are given particular force and influence when they...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...think of a system’s environment as being made up of those things that are not part of the system, but can either affect the system or be affected by it. Example 4 takes you into a particular area of interest, which is known as a domain, to look at system boundaries and how they can change. Example 4 A hospital is a domain where software is put to a variety of uses. A...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs