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Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...maths is done on bytes rather than denary digits, and the theory and methods are much more advanced than those used with EAN-13 for detecting errors. Let’s look at the ‘dimensions’ of the codes and how many errors can be corrected. RS codes can be designed with differing error-correction ability, depending upon the number of message digits in the block. For a given...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...de Klerk cancelled the country’s nuclear weapons programme. South Africa became the first – and to date the only – country to have developed its own nuclear weapons and then to unilaterally dismantle them. Since then, successive South African governments have been active in supporting nuclear disarmament, playing a key role in establishing the African Nuclear...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...de-rated version. In short, the operations side of a business is forced to manage the dynamics of change on an almost continuous basis. Of course, managing change is not just restricted to managing technological change. As we made clear at the outset of this course, technological and organisational change go hand in hand. Sometimes technological change leads to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...de facto lingua franca of business and places like Silicon Valley are the epicentre of innovation in their field, it is easy to forget that much creativity continues to happen in diverse cultural environments. In the modern, globalised age it is tempting to focus solely on the common features different organisations or perhaps even different people share. This temptation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...math but I say the arts particularly because they are the victims of this mentality currently particularly – the arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak, when you’re present in the current moment, when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...de-sac from which it is extremely unlikely to be rescued by the operation of natural selection. Question 9 Question: There's perhaps a danger of thinking of omnivory as being the ideal 'jack-of-all-trades' feeding tactic, permitting animals to switch from one food source to another as the occasion demands. What disadvantages might omnivory present? Answer To complete the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...de Roman/WireImage via Getty Images Michelle Obama: Monica Schipper; Getty Images Angela Merkel: Omer Messinger / Stringer Activity 6 Figure 5: Darth Vader: Ann E. Parry/Alamy Stock Photo Homer Simpson: Entertainment Pictures/ Alamy Stock Photo Marge Simpson: Everett Collection/ Alamy Stock Photo Princess Leia: AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Joey from Friends: ZUMA Press,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...De Angeli, A., McCaffery, M., Stone, E. (2019) ‘Healthcare education with virtual-world simulations’, Health Informatics Journal, [online]. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1460458218805009 (Accessed: 3 June 2025). Diaz-Navarro, C., Hadfield, A. and Pierce, S. (2014) TALK for clinical debriefing, Available at:
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs