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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...change is so great. You may have considered energy technologies, such as electricity or nuclear power; or mechanical ones, including the internal combustion engine and the jet; or medical ones, such as vaccination or antibiotics. Maybe you thought of mass-communication technologies, including radio and television. However, it's not possible to look at the applied science...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...change over time; and how the appearance and contents of a source can reflect the circumstances in which it is produced. The course focuses on three examples of musical media that allow us to study music of the past: manuscripts of sixteenth-century Belgium, prints of eighteenth-century London, and recordings of twentieth-century America...This free course, Music and its...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...changing area of network security by studying the main issues involved in achieving a reasonable degree of resilience against attacks...Encryption of files and firewalls are just some of the security measures that can be used in security. This free course, Network security, which assumes you have a substantial knowledge of computing, helps to explain the intricacies of...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...change in relative wages. The labour market is complex and the two observations that more women now participate in the labour market and that there has been a narrowing of relative wage differentials reflect a number of possible relationships. On the one hand, it may be the case that more women participate because female wages have increased over time. On the other hand,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...changes have been brought about by citizens mobilising against nuclear weapons. In Session 6, you’ll learn more about the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), one of the most important and most successful anti-nuclear campaigns in the world today. This course has been produced as part of an AHRC-funded project on ‘Global histories of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...changing the routine for the caree. You might have identified some of the barriers on this list when reflecting on your own physical activity levels or that of the case studies from Activity 2 in Session 1. The facilitators to physical activity in carers found in the research are discussed in the next section. Despite the challenges that a carer could face to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...changing field of manufacturing. The current state-of-the-art for AM is unlikely to be the standard in the future. Therefore, in this section, only the fundamentals of certain specific techniques will be discussed. As a general rule, AM systems can be divided into three categories based on the materials they are designed to use: polymer materials metallic materials...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...changing the crust at the surface of the Earth. The atmosphere and climate combined with plate tectonics lead to erosion of mountains, thus destroying evidence of meteorite impacts. The geological features seen on the Moon, however, are different because the crust does not move: there is no plate tectonics. If you look at the Moon with the naked eye you can see pale...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs