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Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...math, and physics are applicable and show a diverse education, which is perfect for an IoE career. The Open University is part of the Cisco Networking Academy programme. You can find out more about our Cisco courses and also explore our full computing prospectus...Session 5: Bringing it all together: 5.3.4 IT industry jobs for the IoE - IoE is creating demand for a broad...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...Math Destruction, data scientist Cathy O’Neil talks about the rising new WMDs: widespread, mysterious, and destructive algorithms that are increasingly being used to make decisions that impact more aspects of our lives. So, who gets hired or fired? Do you get that loan? Do you get insurance? Are you admitted into the college that you wanted to get into? Do you and I pay...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Math; Pexels; 1994: Jared C. Benedict; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en; 2004: Jared C. Benedict; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.ent; 2005: Metoc; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 2.5/ deed.en; 2012: Guy Solimano / Stringer Video 3 / Rolls Royce Timeline: Music: Philip Guyler; Audio Network 1960: Douglas...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...de plume of ‘one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lanark’ (if intended to provide Owen with anonymity this was a thin disguise, given the content) and entitled ‘On the Formation of Character’, is prefixed by the famous precept, central to the ‘New View’, that: Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...de/ system/ files/ publications/ wp120_maehler.pdf (Accessed 25 November 2018). Marsh, J. (2015) ‘Supplying the world’s factory: environmental impacts of Chinese resource extraction in Africa,’ Tulane Environmental Law Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 393–407. Mohan, G. and Lampert, B. (2013) ‘Negotiating China: reinserting African agency into China-Africa...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...de Streel (March, 2019) summarised how anticompetitive behaviour could occur given digital firms’ size, competition, and particularities. They divide this behaviour into four main categories: bundling products (abuse of dominance), product proliferation and essential components (abuse of dominance), acting as gatekeepers (abuse of dominance) and finally via strategic...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...maths and literacy skills in particular. In more recent years their role has expanded, and some teaching assistants with higher-level formal qualifications have received further training to help them to nurture the wellbeing of children throughout the school. [This is a photograph of a Teaching assistant working with a child.] Figure 2 A Teaching assistant supporting a...
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...De Stefano 1998). Chen and DeStefano first indicated the excellent safety record of MMR in hundreds of millions of people worldwide over three decades. They questioned whether the newly identified syndrome of autistic enterocolitis could be considered clinically distinctive: ‘no clear case-definition was presented, a necessary requirement of a true new clinical syndrome...