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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...Coding applied our work to transform how Computer Science is accredited in the UK. This scenario is based on the use of Smart Badges, which are dynamic records of accreditation that follow the same principles as Open Badges and offer the same benefits in recording accreditation. However, Smart Badges are immutable and easily verifiable as they are stored on the...
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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...simple contrivance was derived from an ancient multiplication method (called ‘lattice’ multiplication – see Box 1), which involved a special layout on paper of the two numbers to be multiplied so as to display the partial products of the multiplication, to facilitate adding them in the right way. Box 1: Multiplication on Napier’s bones Consider first various ways...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...simple question, but there is no really simple answer. However, the dictionary definitions do give us some pointers. They make clear that there are systems ‘in the world’ as things. For the most part, you can consider the bodies of animals or people, industrial processes and everyday objects like a bicycle or car as these kinds of systems. There are also systems ‘in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...simple matrix diagrams to relate objectives to strategies name and describe the chief roles various people can assume relating to proposals and projects relate all these roles to the process of organisational planning explain different views of quality and show that a structured approach to planning improves quality...Project management: the start of the project journey:...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...code – the normative definition of crime. So, the two meanings of crime cannot be reconciled because a great deal of legally-defined crime is not considered to be normatively-defined crime. However, norms come in different forms. Potentially criminal acts can be judged against formal moral systems, like religious beliefs. Quakers and pacifists, for example, would not...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...simple, designed for a child and intended to teach users about diet and diabetes. I sit opposite Charlie, my diminutive fellow player. Between us is a touch screen. Our task is to identify which of a dozen various foodstuffs are high or low in carbohydrate. By dragging their images we can sort them into the appropriate groups. Charlie is polite, rising to greet me when I...
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Video 15 mins
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...simple conversations in the language. You will also have plenty of opportunities to practise Tamil throughout the course with activities and quizzes...Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the Tamil alphabet and sound, and a basic understanding of the Tamil language count up...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...codes and conventions that lie behind its production and, also, to understand both the obvious messages and the underlying, often hidden, meanings. Fundamental to producing a map is the relationship between data (the information you wish to display and convey) and space, both the geographic space being represented and the space available on the sheet of paper. Data is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs