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Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...changes will take place without a corresponding change in the chemical structure of the material. This is why scrap thermoplastic can be re-used. In practice, some thermal and oxidative degradation occurs and recycling must be done only with an understanding of the effect that it has upon the properties of the final moulding. Thermosets can be defined as those polymers...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...change of climate or locality; as well as in the case of those who become troubled by pain over the heart when they have not vomited for several days. Nor am I unaware that in such cases there is prescribed rest, but that is not always within the reach of those who are obliged to be busy; nor does rest act in the same way with everybody. Accordingly I allow that vomiting...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...changed by the time you are doing this activity...Learning from major cyber security incidents: 3 Case study 2: the TalkTalk hack - At around midday on 21 October 2015, the website of TalkTalk – a large telecommunications company and internet service provider – suddenly became unavailable. A holding page, as shown in Figure 3, stated that TalkTalk was having some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...changed or altered in some way. Swanwick suggests that this definition brings to mind the fate of August Gloop from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ‘when he is shot up a pipe into the mincing, mixing, slicing machine’ (Swanwick, 2008, p. 10). But don’t, dear children, be alarmed; August Gloop will not be harmed, Although, of course, we must admit...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...changing world which looks at the different viewpoints surrounding the concept of management and managing...Contemporary issues in managing: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: describe the nature of different types of managerial approaches adopted by organisations in contemporary time understand the purpose of different types of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...change – has been successfully applied to many problems involving motion for several centuries. Such problems vary from calculating the rate of spread of infectious diseases to predicting the positions of the planets, and even designing video games. It was invented independently by both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz at the end of the 17th century. [This is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...changes in the way we live our lives. The article's title includes some very emotive words: 'the end of the world as we know it', and the abstract talks about changing society significantly. I assumed these changes would involve the use of computers – perhaps in a way they are not currently used – because the abstract talks about bringing people 'into closer contact...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...changing attitudes to ancient artefacts. Now, it was collected in the nineteenth century, and at that time people didn’t really appreciate having fragmentary, broken antiquities, so it was stuck together and the cracks were painted over, so it actually looked like a complete beautiful, untouched vase. In more recent times, there’s been a turn towards uncovering these...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs