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Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...history. (Sutliff, 1901) The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have entered a new era, often referred to as the ‘Third Industrial Revolution’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...history; some of its best/worst amenities (parks, sports or cultural facilities and regular social activities); the character and/or groupings of its inhabitants; the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of its public services; its political make-up. Draw lines from the central bubble outwards to the others, and add more bubbles and lines as you think of related things that you...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...family (Cercopithecidae). The marmosets, tamarins and capuchin-like monkeys of the New World are found in Central and South America; they comprise two related families. Apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos) and humans are the subject of course S182_10, so I will say little about them here. As DA points out in LoM p. 272, apart from humans, very few...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...family violence, incest) or within a restricted social setting (the school, the workplace, the street). A further difficulty in studying racially motivated crime or racial harassment is establishing racial motivation. One approach is to accept the victim's view; another is for an observer to make a judgement based on a description of the facts. Definitions used vary in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...history of life on Earth. The ability to sense their environment and to communicate with each other would have provided primordial cells with distinct adaptive and replicative advantages. An example of an ancient cellular communication system is quorum sensing, which is observed in both bacteria and archaea and is therefore believed to have originated ~3 billion years...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...families, or have had extremely distressing experiences before joining the community in Wales. Are these groups understood within your school so that they can be participating members of the learning community?...3. Transforming learning: 3.1 A broad view of inclusion - Definitions of ‘inclusion’ and ‘inclusive education’, then, have moved away from a specific...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...history, philosophy, political science and law, amongst them. This extremely broad research program can be split into several core issues and central questions, which all signify a specific research area. The six main research areas are: Define and conceptualize international crimes Measure and map international crimes Estimate social costs of international crimes...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...family might be nearby. Such applications make the world around us available to us in new ways that augment the reality that surrounds us and our experience of it. [Described image] Figure 3 (a) Couple trying to find their way around in a city by using a paper map; (b) Person using a smartphone with an interactive map to find their way around in a city It is not just...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs