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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...system to monitor network traffic, but it hadn’t worked for the previous 19 months because a security certificate hadn’t been renewed. Equifax stored its data in a database called ACIS, and was alerted in March 2017 to a critical security vulnerability in an Apache Struts web server that provided access to this database. A patch had been issued but Equifax failed to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...systems. Finite element analysis (FEA) is an indispensable software tool in engineering design, and indeed in many other fields of science and technology. In this course you will be introduced to the essence of FEA; what is it and why do we carry out FEA? As an example of its use, we will look briefly at the case of finite element analysis of the tub of a racing car....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...systems have been built around certain assumptions about what’s ‘normal’: white, middle-class, non-disabled norms that shape whose voices get heard and whose get dismissed (Tyack, 1974). This is precisely why some scholars describe autoethnography as ‘a radical democratic politics’ that creates space for conversations that can actually change things (Holman...
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Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...systems. Activities should provide an introduction to: reviewing education for students aged 3–19 years as it is realised today across global contexts identifying drivers for change in education. Week 1 activity planner ACTIVITY DETAILS TIME 1 Read the Education in numbers infographic and consider reflection points. 30 minutes 2 Watch the video RSA Animate: Changing...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...system, and use common terminology to describe these components...Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century: 1 Computers: From novelty to commonplace - [Timings. This is the first section of this unit. It should take you around one hour to complete.] The theme of this section is the development of digital technologies, from the physically large and highly...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...systems, education systems (particularly the university sector), banking and finance, and national, regional and pan-national political and governmental systems and situations (e.g. the EU, OECD, etc.). This course begins by explaining the genesis of the capabilities approach – which lies in the resource-based view (RBV) of organisations – before moving on to discuss...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...system, then villagers could drink contaminated water. If they are used for irrigation, then crops could be contaminated. b. The phosphogypsum waste would have to be analysed to determine the separate components in the mixture. Each of these components would have to undergo laboratory tests to determine whether they are taken up by animal tissues and what effect they have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How might Brexit affect Scotland?
Society, Politics & Law

How might Brexit affect Scotland?

...systemic shift in Global politics, with those dubbed ‘Remainers’ having to capitulate at the somewhat unexpected result. There is still little clarity on how the negotiations will affect individual nations of the United Kingdom, in what’s been called the most complicated political discussions since World War II. Analysis of the results showed that although the...
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