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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...community. Nevertheless, Socrates adds that the engineer and the navigator recognise that that community will inevitably include ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people. But why, then, is the ferry's skipper so modest? Why does the skilled navigator, after landing, walk ‘about the shore beside his ship in an unassuming way’? Socrates puts the answer rather bluntly. He...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...communicate with a wider public. It also led to anxieties about how to manage the increasing amount of books, resulting in ingenious solutions, such as Agostino Ramelli’s ‘book wheel’, a rotating bookshelf and desk. [This is an illustration of a person using a book wheel.] Figure 1 Agostino Ramelli’s book wheel. The arrival of a new medium, however, did not mean...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...communicates his interpretation. Now it’s your turn to use these same three stages: observation, interpretation and communication...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: 2 Observation, interpretation and communication - Activity 1 Timing: You should take less than ten minutes for this activity. [Described image] Figure 2 An object from the British Museum,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...communism before he went. Was interested in socialism, but as you say, in a very loose way. How significant was that then in helping him to maintain a more critical independent position during and after Spain? DAVID: Well, as you say, he came to Spain not exactly cold because there is that long polemical second half of The Road to Wigan Pier, where he tries to work out...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...community identified as salient include increased independence, mental health problems, drug, and alcohol misuse in the history or the life cycle of the higher education community. This community focused approach to understanding suicidal behaviour has the capacity to generate prevention strategies specific to particular communities which are ‘fit for purpose’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...community for humanitarian assistance, already at full stretch, could easily be overwhelmed,” the report warns. The risks of state failure could rise significantly, affecting many countries simultaneously, and even threatening those currently considered developed and stable. But the report is not relentlessly downbeat. “An honest assessment of risk is no reason for...
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Article 10 mins
Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun
Science, Maths & Technology

Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun

...communications get sorted out), and see additional fantastic pictures of the comet’s rugged surface. What we probably won’t see is a display of cometary fireworks from the Perseids. In the UK, at least, the prediction of a storm of shooting stars is almost inevitably the cue for a week of unbroken cloud. Still, if you are in the northern hemisphere, look to the...
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Article 5 mins
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...community feeding towards this, not least led by the UN (e.g. MDG Report). [A panel discuss the development goals post-2015] The High Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda Opening talks on Thursday 1 November 2012 with the United Nations High Level Panel - Indonesian President Yudhoyono, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Johnson...
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Article 5 mins