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What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...system with four massive bombs. Julie Nicholson I think what everyone wanted was something that represented the 52 individuals but also expressed something about the collective nature, and that it would be something that stood as … as a thing of beauty, a work of art. Christopher Wilk We don’t regard ourselves as the sole source of authority. It used to be that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...system of energy transfer, a whole complex of organisms living together, linked by energy transfer. The key difference is that ‘area’ defines one, whereas ‘energy relationships’ define the other. Before we can begin to tackle the larger issues of ecosystems and how they have been compromised by human intervention, we must understand what is meant by
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Level 1: Introductory 12 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
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...systems of psychiatric diagnosis (see Box 1): Panic attacks are extreme experiences of sudden and overwhelming anxiety and fear. Panic disorder is the regular experience of reoccurring panic attacks. Box 1 Psychiatric diagnosis Psychiatric diagnosis is the process by which mental health difficulties are ‘diagnosed’ or identified or labelled. There are two main systems...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...think about dangerousness and the structures we put in place to protect ourselves from various dangers needs to be reconsidered. Prisons, and the harms that prisons respond to, distract us from thinking more carefully about a wider range of dangers that are more imminently and universally harmful than ‘street crime’. 3. DON’T WE HAVE TO LOCK UP VIOLENT PEOPLE,...
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Article 12 mins
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...systems, processes, expectations, if changed, could open up new ways of thinking and doing. Reading about these challenges may make you feel that being too close to the inquiry focus, being too invested in processes and systems, or being socialised into the practices and languages of your context, might make dreaming or imagining difficult. But, it is precisely because...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...systems. Finite element analysis (FEA) is an indispensable software tool in engineering design, and indeed in many other fields of science and technology. In this course you will be introduced to the essence of FEA; what is it and why do we carry out FEA? As an example of its use, we will look briefly at the case of finite element analysis of the tub of a racing car....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs