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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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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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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
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...adults and children in a household (adapted from DWP, 2023)...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 2.1.2 The effect of incomes and household types - The carbon footprints given in Section 2.1 are averages (means) for a UK inhabitant. But, as mentioned earlier, footprints differ considerably for different individuals and households. A factor which generally has a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 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
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
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
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...cared nothing for his appearance and even slept in his boots. He worked largely alone without a workshop or assistants, disguised his own training and took on no pupils. Raphael’s artistic persona is closely associated with harmony, as is seen not only in the trope of the perfect unity of his workshop but also in the much-praised softness and delicacy of his technique,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs