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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...systems in the world. For example, NHS England considers high quality care to consist of care that is safe, clinically effective and has a positive experience for the patient (NHS England, n.d.a). Going beyond the definition of quality, it is important to note that the process of improving healthcare also involves defining the important aspects of quality improvement as...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...systems need to continually supply the working muscles with oxygen to supply fuel (via the aerobic energy system) for the length of the climb and prevent fatigue (cardiorespiratory endurance). Muscles will need to continually contract in order to provide propulsion, strength and maintain technique (muscular strength endurance). Using a combination of cardiorespiratory and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...systems. What’s more, because the flaw is located in such a fundamental part of the computer, there’s no way to know whether or not a machine has been targeted and what data might have been accessed. Both the main flaw (Spectre), and the Intel-only flaw (Meltdown) have been created by a design technique intended to enhance the chips’ performance known as...
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Article 5 mins
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local education systems respond to the wider, global environmental challenges? How do your responses to these questions connect with any of the three models for education introduced in week 2 of the course? [Photo 75901918 © Stepan Popov |...
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Article 5 mins
Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...system. “The rate of change is challenging the current scientific capacity to monitor and predict what is becoming a journey into uncharted territory.” The WMO is the United Nations’ main agency responsible for weather, climate and water. Its president, David Grimes, said: “The Arctic is a principal, global driver of the climate system and is undergoing an...
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Article 10 mins
Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...system Some solutions to these problems have focused on devising language policies which are meant to safeguard local languages. For instance, many Nordic universities have adopted a “parallel language policy”, which accords equal status to English and to the national language (or languages, in the case of Finland, which has two official languages, Finnish and...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...systems and services created to support how we live. Design comes from the ability to think creatively – to be able to imagine ‘what if …?’ and come up with something that didn’t exist before. Some of the greatest human achievements have come from creative design engineering, allowing the realisation of some truly remarkable change in our world. Design...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs