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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...technologies and at our dream of building machines that share our special human features and powers – particularly our mental abilities. Minds – Here, we'll explore the development of the idea that human thought might be a form of computation, from its origins in the 17th century, through the advent of the digital computer in the 20th, and into the Cybernetics and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)...Welcome to the free badged course, Returning to STEM. This course is here to help you get back to work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...education. As a Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor you will be required to offer dynamic and effective supervision. This course offers you a wide range of self-directed learning materials and you will be taken through a series of themes and activities with key resources, designed to support you to develop effective, relational supervisory practice that empowers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...technology so much that we’re now 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...
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Article 10 mins
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...technologies, the idea of the “panoramic” view was far more widely disseminated than the idea of the balloon view. The impact of the panorama can be traced in balloonists’ accounts. Those trying to describe their airborne experiences found the panorama and its related devices to be a useful point of comparison. Before its appearance in 1792, authors of balloon...
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Article 5 mins
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...technologies today are much more complex than those of our ancestors. In many cases intuition is poorly adapted to solving problems in the modern world. Think twice before you decide to trust intuition over rational analysis, especially in important matters, and watch out for people who tell you intuition can be a panacea for decision-making ills. (Simons and Chabris,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...education and care. When a baby is born, there is often a wealth of friends and family who are ready to offer advice and guidance to the new parent on the best way to care for the young child. That advice is informed by family practices and society's expectations. Once the child enters a more formal care setting, advice continues to abound. It is often dictated by policy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...technologies and strive for greater efficiency. (Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the standardised efficiency of the motor industry with the inefficiency of the building trade.) CIAM's early attitudes towards town-planning were stark: "Urbanisation cannot be conditioned by the claims of a pre-existent aestheticism; its essence is of a...
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Article 5 mins