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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...mental activity by which an individual is aware of and knows about his or her environment, including such processes as perceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging and problem solving. * Computer Vision/Machine Vision The combination of electronic eyes and brains allowing a system to see an object, make some decisions about that object and, in certain cases, implement an...
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Article 15 mins
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...health visitor and various books, she should sometimes be playing in slightly different ways – games where it’s your-turn, my-turn like, for example, snap and snake and ladders. But she often just wants to play her musical instruments. She’s got a guitar, just a little one, and she’s also got access to my guitar. She loves her toy piano and she loves all her...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...health post in a rural area, initiating a community saving scheme, or conducting an awareness raising campaign around a specific issue in the local area. You may have noticed intervention and project are used interchangeably in this course. But what is a project? A project is a time-bound intervention, usually lasting between one and five years. It’ll be based on some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...Health NIH held a two-day summit in Washington D.C. over the matter. They could no longer ignore the evidence. At the end of the summit they released a statement stating that ‘the key to treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcer was detection and eradication of Helicobacter pylori.’ With that stamp of approval on his work, the majority of holdouts in the medical...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...wellbeing of early career teachers. The need to balance support and challenge was discussed earlier, along with some techniques that can promote more balanced professional discussions. Research suggests that being able to practice their roles without fear of failure (Bauer et al., 2007), and in the absence of a performance climate (Černe, Jaklič and Škerlavaj, 2013),...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...mental process of coming into this institution can be horrendous sometimes. You know, stripping you of your identity as you come through the gate, you know, in through the reception. We, we don't get it here but I've seen it and I've felt it in other establishments. You're just totally stripped of your identity and if you're coming in for a fairly minor offence that can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...Health Service (NHS), of the largest organisations in the world, was unable to change as planned – because of failed IT systems. Many more examples, from the private, public and voluntary sectors, may come to your mind. But what exactly do we mean by success or failure in an IT system? This course mostly focuses on success, and helps you understand what we mean by a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...mental health...From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise definitions and applications of key terms relating to mental health understand and apply basic grammatical terminology describe briefly the different types of sounds used in speech in both acoustic and articulatory terms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs