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Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...et al., 2000; Brooks et al., 1998; Humanoid Robotics Group, 2004, online.) [Figure 1] Figure 1 Rodney Brooks and his android robot Cog. Photo by Peter Menzel. Copyright © Peter Menzel/Science Photo Library There are times when we seem to perceive things in a Cog-like way. Psychologists have shown that it is possible to influence a person's behaviour by means of stimuli...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...et al. (2006) found that groups of ‘three, four, and five outperformed the best individuals’ when solving a letters-to-numbers coding problem, attributing this performance to ‘the ability of people to work together to generate and adopt correct responses, reject erroneous responses, and effectively process information.’ Creativity – Stolaki et al. (2023)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...adapted) from Dialectoteca del Español http://dialects.its.uiowa.edu/ main.html https://uiowa.edu Section 2: image © Unknown Section 3: image from Hualde, Jose Ignacio (2005) The Sounds of Spanish (p47) Cambridge University Press Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...adapted Poussin’s neoclassical deathbed formula (a frieze-like composition structured around straight, horizontal lines and uncluttered spaces), which also found dramatic expression in David’s Death of Socrates. Moreover, in 1827, the year in which Delacroix’s Sardanapalus was being completed, Ingres, by then a famous representative of Neoclassicism, exhibited his...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...adaptations – though, like Norway and Switzerland, it would still have to pay a single-market access fee for the benefit of all the others’ standardisation. While UK trade and investment flows with other regions are now growing faster than those with the EU, the Single Market still accounted for 45% of UK exports and 53% of imports (of goods and services) in 2014 ,...
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Article 5 mins
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...adapting it for our app. So our app actually works using the internet, but we’re going to put in this feature whereby you can still make payments on the app where effectively you’re using text. You wouldn’t know because you’re using the app, but the actual technology is from one of the Fintechs. So it just shows that disruption goes both ways. These 20 fellows you...
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Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences

...adapt it as you encounter them. For me, I have come up with three questions that I found are helpful to me when you start looking at a text that you don’t know, and try and get behind some of the meanings that are there, read into it, read beyond the surface. Questions I ask myself are: what's the context in which this was produced; what are the assumptions that are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...adapted from D867 Critical criminological perspectives: An introduction to critical criminology Crimes of the powerful Criminology beyond crime...Race, ethnicity and crime: Acknowledgements - Course image Chris Yarzab in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr