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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...de-greased and cleansed skin), thought out or discovered how it can be done (soap in the form of a shower gel), designed, set up and run the means for making the thing (raw materials, process equipment, energy source, labour and finance) and delivered it to the consumer. You can see that this nutshell description of what engineering involves already identifies or implies...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...de-sac? In the 1980s, a lot of research effort was expended on developing a technique known as ‘coherent detection’ of optical signals. The technique involved applying to optical signals a method that is widely used in the detection of radio signals, but that is much more difficult to do with optical signals because of the very much higher frequency of light (of the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...de libération nationale led the fight for independence. The colonising countries generally viewed such violence as terrorist activity. Citizens of the colonised countries inevitably perceive this as a delegitimization of their struggle for liberation. This difference in perspective is one reason it’s hard to get an international consensus on what terrorism is,...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...de/documents/publications/studies/Photovoltaics-Report.pdf (Accessed 7 August 2024) Global Carbon Project (2023) Briefing on key messages: Global Carbon Budget 2023. Available at: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/carbonbudget2023/ (Accessed: 4 August 2024). IEA (International Energy Agency) (2021) Net zero by 2050: a roadmap for the global energy sector. Available at:...
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...De Lima, M. S., Horta, B. L. et al. (2007) ‘The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis’, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(6), pp. 942–948. Reale, L., Bartoli, B., Cartabia, M. et al. and Lombardy ADHD Group (2017) ‘Comorbidity prevalence and treatment outcome in children and adolescents with ADHD’, European Child &...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...de facto responsibility for the ongoing domestic care and welfare of the child but not to those ‘in loco parentis’ who take only a temporary or intermittent caring role. (p. 1) This is the definition of the parent we will use for this free course along with the term ‘sibling’, which can be applied to any children living in the family home whether or not they have...
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...De Troya in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Every effort has been made to contact...
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...de Boer in the Netherlands employ a low-price positioning strategy. Another strategy is to launch a low-price version of an existing product targeted at price-sensitive consumers. For example, Apple launched the Mac mini, a basic version of the Macintosh computer. With this low-priced machine Apple believes it can tempt people who have bought an iPod (and become fans of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs