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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...system for making sure that all aircraft are safe at all times. In the same way that drivers of cars have to obey the rules of the road, pilots also have a huge number of laws and regulations they must adhere to ensure the safety of the shared airspace, runways and airports. Air traffic managers communicate with pilots and other parties to keep everyone informed about...
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Activity 20 mins
Sensory augmentation devices
History & The Arts

Sensory augmentation devices

...systems, are now helping progress research in other very practical applications... Sensory augmentation devices How can new technology help you to play a new musical instrument? The E-Sense research programme, which is building novel augmentation devices to explore sensory, bodily and cognitive extension, will begin to explain this through a short, insightful video....
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Video 8 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...system, and there is a range of positions between these two points of view. There is increasing recognition that other people can be a useful resource when an individual is affected by mental ill health; this resource, made up of personal contacts, is sometimes referred to as ‘social capital’ (Webber et al., 2014). Similarly, practice can vary between different types...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...thinking about reflective and experiential learning. He argued that learning from experience necessarily involves four stages, shown in Figure 1, and that each of these stages draws on different skills and characteristics. Figure 1 Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (adapted from Kolb, 1984) Kolb’s learning cycle shows that learning from experience is about much more...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...thinking about literature in terms of its purpose. You’ll start considering two novels written for children, Marianne Dreams and Tom’s Midnight Garden, and learn some introductory linguistic techniques to help you identify how these works achieve their intended effects. You’ll then consider diversity and inclusion, and at the end of the course, you’ll think about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...think about how SPSS works and how to carry out some basic statistical work. All the required work for this course takes place within each activity – nothing is downloaded onto your computer. Please note that the software package SPSS is not provided with this course. The course is designed as a series of activities that can be used to help you familiarise yourself with...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...thinking involves solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior, by drawing on the concepts fundamental to computer science. Computational thinking includes a range of mental tools that reflect the breadth of the field of computer science. (Wing, 2006) Computational thinking is a logical thought process by which problems can be solved (Csizmadia et...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...system in order to infect other computing devices or storage media that interact with the infected computer. A worm exploits the vulnerability of computing devices in a network and replicates itself by finding and infecting other vulnerable computing devices. A Trojan is malware disguised as something useful and can be self-replicating. Ransomware is malware that demands...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs