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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Alphabetical referencing - One suggested convention for citing references is alphabetical; e.g. the Harvard referencing style. The name of the author appears in brackets in the text, together with the year of publication; for example (Smith, 1986). Where there are only two authors, both names should be given in the text; if there are more than two authors only the first...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...alphabet. You may, however, wish to acquire some knowledge of the alphabet and pronunciation before you begin, by looking at Introducing Ancient Greek. If you are interested in the pronunciation of Latin, you may wish to look at Introducing Latin before you begin this course. Note that references to the Greek language in this course are to Ancient Greek rather than...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...Alphabet collaboratively. (Alphabet is a holding company with a number of different organisations including Google, YouTube, etc. Google refers to the organisation taking care of the web browser.) From the beginning, Brin and Page had a more technological approach and had been friends since their studies at Stanford, whereas Schmidt brought his business experience as he...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...alphabetic internet domain and host names, such as the website addresses entered into web browsers, into numeric IP addresses. Without this translation, the website names will not be converted to computer-readable numeric IP addresses and hence the web browser will not be able to connect to the website you want to go to. Only a small number of companies in the world are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...alphabet, you can also write down how to spell your name, surname and place of birth...Week 2: Names and introductions: 10 This week’s quiz - Check what you’ve learned this week by taking the end-of-week quiz. Week 2 quiz Open the quiz in a new window or tab (by holding ctrl [or cmd on a Mac] when you click the link), then return here when you have done it...Week 2:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...alphabet by shifting it forward three places. Thus A becomes D, B becomes E, C becomes F and so on. (A cipher that uses an alphabetic shift for any number of places is also commonly referred to as a Caesar cipher, although this isn't strictly correct since the Caesar cipher is technically one in which each character is replaced by one three places to the right.) I could...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...alphabet or script. Learners of Greek, Russian, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese, for example, are confronted by texts which offer little that can be recognised for someone who is only familiar with the Roman alphabet. Likewise, learners whose languages use other types of script face the same problem when learning languages such as English, Spanish or German. The challenges...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...alphabetic and text-based literacy with the advent of the literature related to new literacies and digital literacy. This need to recognise the multifaceted, dynamic and changing nature of literacy, especially in the contemporary contexts related to the ‘information age’, will also emerge in other sections of this course...Literacy, social justice and inclusive...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs