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IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...guide you to an understanding of how devices 'talk' to each other and what technologies and processes are involved. You will also look at wired and wireless communication technologies, introducing you to some of the key methods involved...Are you a technophobe? Bluetooth, Ethernet, WiFi; are they terms that mean nothing to you? IT: device to device communication, is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...university organisations. They described a situation where: Recent studies of universities, a familiar form of organised hierarchy, suggest that organisations can be viewed for some purposes as collections of choices looking for problems, issues and feelings looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions looking for issues to which they might be...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...universities who engage with people in this way. Opinion polls, for example, depend on people answering questions, usually over the phone. Increasingly, all sorts of organisations make use of online surveys to collect information about people's opinions on certain issues'. Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose (1999) suggest, in fact, that the rise of opinion polling in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...University course L314 A buen puerto: advanced Spanish, which is taught in Spanish. This course makes use of a voice recording tool. Please note that this will only currently work in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. We hope to fix this problem soon...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...University course T868 Environmental monitoring and protection...Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the major sources of water pollutants; describe the effects on water due to organic materials, plant nutrients and toxic, physical and biological pollutants; list the main diseases...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...guide of What Camera? Magazine The quotation and the case study describe the take-up by consumers of new products embodying innovations in information technology. Both link the popularity of new technology among consumers with falling prices and draw attention to the rapidity of consumer take-up. There is something new for Dixons and other retailers to sell and for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...university ethics boards – says that he did learn from what happened beyond the institution. “I respect what they’re doing very much. It’s their call, but I think a lot of them have contributed greatly to the field and have contributed significantly to what we’ve done. We’ve been able to benefit from the experiences they’ve reported on,” he says....
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Article 10 mins
Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...University's History courses and qualifications In 2012, I recorded this audio in which two leading historians of the First World War discuss their subject, and in particular the question of the origins of the war, with me. Professor John Röhl and Professor Christopher Clark explain the fascination of the topic and give their differing views on why war broke out in 1914....
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Audio 30 mins