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Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...Money was scarce, and more than once I had looked with longing eyes at the outside of [Bradford’s] St. George’s Hall when big concerts were in progress. One memorable evening, when the temptation was immensely strong, I quietly stole up the steps of the South gallery and listened outside the door to the glorious music. (Midgley, 1934, p. 16) If you are interested in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...money for high-fidelity equipment, or hi-fi systems as they are called. This aesthetic demand has driven much electronics research for nearly a century. Miniaturisation, low power consumption and computational load are also drivers of innovation, as can be seen with increasingly powerful and smaller mobile phones that last longer and longer between charges...An...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...money through crime, particularly drugs and are bound by an imposed loyalty to an authoritarian gang leader. They have blighted life on their estates with gang-on-gang murders and unprovoked attacks on innocent bystanders. Cameron (2011) This claim was challenged as false by the LSE (2011), thus illustrating how young people continue to be used as scapegoats by the state...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...busy histology department at Milton Keynes Hospital, in central England. In the video, Peter Mooney, the Laboratory Manager for the department, takes you through the different steps involved in the production of sections, staining and initial analysis of slides for diagnostic histopathology. These steps will be described in more detail later in the course. Please note...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...business, it is an EXport business. Whereas in Spanish, it is common to keep the accent on the lexically stressed syllable. No es un negocio de importaCIÓN, es un negocio de exportaCIÓN...Week 3 Stress, rhythm and intonation: 5.2 Indefinite objects - In English, indefinite object pronouns are usually deaccented and pitch accent is placed on the verb. I KNOW someone. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...businesses to the first telephone exchange. Here I will make the distinction between the access network (from homes or businesses to the first telephone exchange – also called the last mile, local loop, or subscriber network) and the core network (between exchanges, also called the trunk network). As demand for capacity has risen, however, the merits of optical fibre...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...busy. By contrast, you might never have had a dispute over the boundaries of a piece of land (though perhaps you have!). For the original audience, however, these scenes might have seemed equally familiar. Many people would have led lives centred on agriculture, and so issues of land management would have been a part of everyday life. Passages like this in the Iliad are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs