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Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...family at home to make sure that they are secure. MAN 2 [SPEAKING PORTUGUESE] MAN 3 Imagine a future where the pills my patients take transmit their vitals directly to me, where I can monitor their pulse 24/7, sent from a device near the heart to the phone in my pocket. [BEEPING] It’s about the doctor-patient relationship. WOMAN It’s about creating places that are...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...history of the Universe, with smaller clumps being pulled together by gravity to form larger ones. Astronomers have carried out many different surveys, which have investigated different parts of the Universe. In the following activity you will compare two important recent galaxy surveys. Activity 4 Comparing astronomy surveys Timing: Allow around 20 minutes Figure 18...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...histories to be made a mandatory part of Wales’s new school curriculum. Alongside campaigners who led a petition to the Education Minister, which received almost 35,000 signatures and was debated in the Senedd, she helped persuade the Welsh government to more explicitly require that diverse communities, in particular the stories of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...history Many object-oriented methods appeared in the early 1990s and with them proliferation of techniques and notations. By the mid-1990s two authors of well-known methods (James Rumbaugh, one of the authors of OMT (object modelling technique, a predecessor of UML), and Grady Booch, author of the Booch method) (Rumbaugh et al., 1991; Booch, 1994) joined forces in an...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...histories (Thibodeau, 2020). Exposure to international competitions and diverse cultures broadens individuals’ understanding of external influences, promoting a global mindset that is essential in today’s interconnected world. In the Spotlight If you are wondering how global citizenship relates to you, here is Leanne’s explanation. Here she discusses inclusivity and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...family of intermediate filament proteins known as lamins, which form a network of filaments on the inner surface of the nuclear membrane. This network is called the nuclear lamina and is linked both to the nuclear membrane and to the chromatin; the nuclear lamina is thought to help to organise the chromatin. When viewed at high magnification, it can be seen that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...family. There are much larger databases in use by institutions containing specific types of information, such as library catalogues, banks' records of customers' accounts, and hospital medical records. Graphics and image editing software allows you to create and edit drawings and images. Digital photography has become very popular and image-editing software allows you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...history of an igneous rock. The back-scattered electron image in Figure 39 shows several large crystals of the minerals olivine and pyroxene surrounded by finer-grained crystals in a lava from the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific. EMP analysis reveals (Figure 40) that the bright rim around the edge of the olivine crystals is rich in iron, but the iron content...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs