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Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...class discussion, so please avoid doing it online. Next, be careful with joking or sarcasm. Since these frequently rely on nonverbal facial cues or tone, they often do not come across very well in online communication. ROBOTIC VOICE: That post you made was totally sick. [CRICKETS CHIRP] SPEAKER: It's easy for someone to misunderstand your meaning or even become offended...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...class of women, as imagined by an artist in 1915. Activity 17 An ancient vegetarian Timing: This activity should take about 15 minutes The following extract is from Pythagoras’ attempt to make the case for vegetarianism in Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Stephanie McCarter’s translation. As you study this passage in this activity, you will be analysing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...class of drugs called analgesics (pain relievers) and antipyretics (fever reducers). It relieves pain by elevating the pain threshold and reduces fever through its action on the heat-regulating centre of the brain. Side effects of acetaminophen include yellow skin or eyes, hives, itching, bleeding (bloody urine, black stool, bruising, or pinpoint red spots), fever, sore...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...de (1879?) The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), trans. Roscoe Mongan, London, James Cornish and Sons (first published 1673). Miller, A. (1998) Philosophy of Language, London, UCL Press. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct, London, Allen Lane. Schiffer, S.R. (1972) Meaning, Oxford, Clarendon Press. Schiffer, S.R. (1987) Remnants of Meaning, Cambridge, Mass.,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...de-escalation towards settlement of conflict (Kriesberg, 2011). In other words, there is more than one conflict at play. Here you have read a brief overview of the nature of conflict. When seeking an understanding of development processes, recognising the inevitable presence of conflict brings added uncertainty, unpredictability and complexity to the situation. Keeping...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...classes where a duty was owed. Rather, there must be a general principle that applied to all of the cases based on something that was common among them. He based this first on the idea of the law being required to give remedies for obvious social wrongs. He went so far as to suggest he might not apply case law that denied the claimant a remedy in situations such as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...classed as hypertrophic. Between 1940 and 1975 there was a further threefold increase in the concentration of total phosphorus. Eutrophication has damaged a large number of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) designated in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981: English Nature has identified a total of 90 lake SSSIs and 12 river SSSIs that have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...classes to which objects in this space can be assigned, as when labelling pictures of cats vs. dogs) versus approaches that explore the problem space. Whereas Supervised learning is more about the former, so-called Reinforcement Learning (RL) is more about the latter. RL involves an agent exploring a relatively constrained environment in order to work out how to optimally...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs