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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...adults engage with science and research on social media?’, Social Media + Society, July-September 2018, 1-10, DOI: 10.1177/205630511879772 Reviewing. Although your dissertation must be all your own work, you can ask for help to review what you have written. How do you ask for help, then, while keeping the dissertation all your own work and avoiding plagiarism? Reviews...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...adults begin to panic, speculating on the link between the string of deaths, one child, Hannah, is visited by the ghost of each of her school mates within hours of their passing, often before the death has even been announced. At its heart, The Raptures is a mystery, but one that brings rural Ireland uncannily to life through elements of magic realism. Carson takes the...
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AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...careful refinement. Data needs to be refined because the quality of the dataset used to train algorithms have a direct influence on the accuracy of the AI model. That means that diverse and representative high-quality data is essential to developing advanced AI models. Consider a music streaming service. It uses the data from your listening habits, such as the songs you...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...care of an older sister, who had little time to devote to him and struggled with the precarious financial position of the family. Delacroix’s own (artistic) glory was to come later and he is often described as part of the ‘generation of 1820’ (Spitzer, 2001, p.9). This generation, coming of age between 1814 and 1825, had witnessed the disappointed hopes of...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...care robots that support people in assisted living, to systems that automate how we interact with banking and financial systems, or even virtual online assistants within a range of sectors including hospitality, retail and professional services. Assuming that AI technology advances to this point, it raises a host of concerns about the sorts of behaviours we would want...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...adult by working as an assistant teacher in his father's school. From 1818, when he was 21, until his death ten years later, he led a precarious existence as a professional composer, depending for income on friends and patrons, and the small amount he earned from publications of his works. The Vienna in which Schubert lived in the early nineteenth century was full of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...careful about protecting your personal information, you do not know the true extent to which big communications companies are handing over private data to the state or to other parties. In 2013, this was one of the issues Ed Snowden (the NSA ‘whistle blower’) drew attention to. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people’s lives are monitored by a ‘telescreen’. Many people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...careful definition of the interaction between these partitions...Software development for enterprise systems: 2.3 Risk management - No software development is free from risk, and one crucial activity of development is identifying and managing it. Managing risks requires an early identification of any threats to the development or operation of a system, and then monitoring...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs