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Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...intelligence and morale.) The division of labour, and hence productivity, increased with the emergence of the factory system, in which many workers were brought together under one roof for the first time and each worker was responsible for a small part of the final product. This was very different from the craft manufacture system, in which each worker was responsible for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...intelligence and cunning and that she is just as resourceful as he is when it comes to dealing with a challenging situation. Penelope asks that Eurycleia move their bed outside the bedroom to make up a place for somewhere to sleep (23.177–180). Their bed is, however, immovable – it was carved by Odysseus himself from a single olive tree growing at the centre of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...intelligible only to the software system; objects are not distinguished by the data they store. How people distinguish between real-world objects is different from how software distinguishes between objects which may represent those real-world objects. People distinguish between real-world objects using identifiers with values that are understood by other people, e.g. a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...intelligence indicating that North Korea was behind the attack. In December 2017, the US government publicly announced that North Korea was the main culprit behind the WannaCry attack. This view was shared by the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Japan too, according to CBS News (2017). Nevertheless, North Korea always denied the allegation. Without firm evidence and a proper...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...intelligence. * Perceived quality Quality level is an association that consumers attach to a brand. * Perceived quality Quality level is an association that consumers attach to a brand. * Product A bundle of attributes (features, functions, benefits, and uses) capable of exchange or use; usually a mix of tangible and intangible forms. Thus a product may be an idea, a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...artificially heated or irradiated amethyst.) Milky quartz is white and cloudy as a result of tiny bubbles of fluid (liquid and/or gas). In a few minerals, such as tourmaline, an individual crystal may be multicoloured (Figure 8), reflecting subtle changes in chemical composition as it grew. Figure 7 Some coloured varieties of quartz: (a) purple amethyst (crystals 1.5 cm...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...artificial protection of unconditional welfare and exposed Mandy to work and the costs of independence. Her return to her mother's home would help her realise that it was rash to leave the course and lose the flat. The shock of the sanction is the PA's ‘tough love’ that should break Mandy's dependency. It is likely to have pushed her into low-paid work (meeting the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...artificially restricts the components in a system to make it possible to observe repeatable experiments. In spite of this, reductionism has proved so effective in practice and produced such outstanding results that it has become embedded in our language, literature and thought. Another reason for restricting what is looked at is the scale of calculating any quantitative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs