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IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre in California, USA to connect the Centre's 'Alto' computers to an office printer. Ethernet's journey from its modest roots to become the dominant network technology is a fascinating one. One of the main reasons for its success lies with the decision to publish the standard. Standards that are available to anyone in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...research into the measurement of innovation used by organisations. For instance, Schumpeter’s definition has been used by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to set out the Oslo Manuals to inform innovation policy (OECD, 2005; OECD/Eurostat 2018). The innovation process is defined, based on the OECD/Eurostat report (2018), as the process by...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...centre, the one through which everybody else is positioned so the deserving, the single mother who's the widow, whose husband may have died in the Gulf or in Kosovo, in that sense she's deserving and entitled to the range of benefits, and there's no question about her. But the label single mother somehow, as a definitional sense, doesn't really conjure her up, that's not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...Research into how people study effectively suggests that it is important to pay attention not only to the content of what we are trying to learn but also to the process of our learning. Time spent on the process of how you are learning need not be a distraction from achieving your learning goals. It should support your efforts to achieve them. However, thinking about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...centres of the spheres are ten centimetres away from each other. [A distance marker labelled ‘10.0 cm’ is superimposed on a top-down view of the experiment, and is positioned between the test charge sphere and sphere A.] So first, we’ll record the force on the test charge sphere before we put any charge on the spheres. So I’ll take the readings now. And you should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...Centre. J’ai 37 ans, je suis infirmière dans un service de cardiologie, dans une clinique. J’ai deux enfants, deux garçons, un mari que j’aime, et je suis chanteuse. Mon père et ma mère sont nés en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe, c’est une petite île qui se trouve près de l’Amérique latine, qui est à 8000 km de la France mais qui appartient à la France....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...research and development communications networks, can do as much to advance debate and action on sustainability as it can for the profit margins of immense global companies. Once the capacity for networks exists, they cannot easily be owned, directed, managed or, above all, predicted. This is what makes it impossible to capture what is going on in the world. This section...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...Centre and she’s, she’s put the money in, so there’s a hundred thousand pound extension which shall be built… KAWSAR [02.31] …so what happened with all the other areas….like… ANDREW [02.33] No, we can’t get planning permission – they’re too expensive – we need lots more money, you know, it’s not feasible. KAWSAR [02.43] A hundred thousand...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs