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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...code for design software in their spare time. The group demonstrated a cobbled-together revision of what was to become AutoCAD® at an exhibition in March of the same year. The product was finally launched formally in December and was an instant success. By 1987, 100,000 copies of the application had been sold and, by 1999, 2 million. The reasons for AutoCAD's success...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...simple relationship is an entire range of products, specifications, systems and services that are all required to ensure the consistent supply of electricity. Even the way in which these elements are used, a process, can be designed. These terms are defined below. Box 1 Design engineering terms Product – an object created to fulfil some function or purpose....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...simple, statistically relevant boxes on an official form. We have the raw evidence, but what does it mean? Of those who were married in 1999 how many had been married before but did not declare that fact? How many had been cohabiting in a stable long-term relationship with their partner before marriage (and are such relationships an ‘unofficial’ form of marriage?). If...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...simple business model called the product business model. Now, the product business model is not about whether you sell products, because it also includes services. It's about the idea that you design something, you make it, or you produce it. The customer comes and collects it or uses it. And the customer pays for that product or service. And typically, they take away the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...code and were able to resist the charms of the genre’s typical femme fatale (Nyman, 1997). Gallagher’s love for the genre started as a child through trips to the cinema with his brother Dónal, where The Maltese Falcon (a screen adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel about Detective Sam Spade’s search for a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette) and Purple Noon...
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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...simple (tried and tested) theories to explain the bonding in molecules and at how their shapes may be explained, and indeed predicted. And in a wider sense you’ll be looking at why reactions happen at all and how fast they go. This is also a beginner’s level course in the language of the chemist; you’ll learn about symbols, formulas and how chemical equations which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...simple metaphor of a ‘chain’ suggests. Value is added incrementally by various people, activities and procedures. Often their contribution is not easy to see as a simple sequence of events. Chains of value run through economies, industries and organisations from suppliers to customers, with numerous, often complicated, systems and processes. Many processes are not...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...simple. There are sections of rhyming throughout. (Some of the language is outdated now.) The boy has a mother but this is only mentioned in brief on the first page and his parents are never seen, even when at the end he is running a sweet shop! The boy appears incredibly grown up and capable for his age, almost like a mini adult, helping manage and run businesses. There...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs