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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...et al struggling to deal with a spike in remote tools thanks to coronavirus’ and ‘We analysed electricity demand and found coronavirus has turned weekdays into weekends’. Until we are able to revise the course to include this future research, you may want to search for more articles on ‘green computing’ to bring yourself up to date with this important topic....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...et al. (2012) suggest that: A legally compliant age assessment carried out to professional standards will serve the interests of both the young person and the assessing local authority, not least because of the possibility of a challenge to a decision through judicial review with all that this potentially entails for the parties concerned. It is important therefore to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...et al., 2017). Psychological and neuroscientific studies, based on scientific, positivistic premises, also have a role to play in generating understandings about children’s development and learning (Goswami, 2006; Bruer, 2016; Juvonen and Gross, 2005). This leads to the question as to how these contributions to knowledge can be recognised in a post-positivist world of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...et al. (2005) 'Recent climate change in the Arctic', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 342, no. 1-3, 15 April 2005, Elsevier Inc. Video 1: Using Google Earth to look at the ocean with Mark Brandon : © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/ Video 2: Using Google Earth with a file containing information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...et al. (1998) Life, the Science of Biology, 5th edn, Sinauer Associates Inc; Figure 14: Dr Richard Kessel and Dr Gene Shih, Visuals Unlimited/Science Photo Library; Figure 16: Photo printed with permission from O. L. Miller, B. A. Hamkalo and C. A. Thomas Jr; Figure 21a: CNRI/ Science Photo Library; Figure 21b: Dr Don Fawcett/Science Photo Library; Figure 22c: Dr Gopal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...Edition, Oxford University Press (this edition 2008). Davis, R. W. et al. (1999), ‘Hunting Behavior of a Marine Mammal Beneath the Antarctic Fast Ice’, Science, vol.283, no.5404, pp.993–6. Available at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.283.5404.993 (Accessed 22 January 2019). Eldredge, N. (1991) Fossils: The Evolution and Extinction of Species, London, Aurum Press....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...et al., 2017). Luckily, the spread of the malware was significantly slowed down by a security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human international law can be seen. Whilst such documents differed in their detailed content, certain general principles underpinned them: Every human being has certain rights, which they have by virtue of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs