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Composing with MIDI
History & The Arts

Composing with MIDI

...worked on, Simon illustrates the technical and creative processes involved. This material forms part of TA212 Technology of Music... Composing with MIDI A short introduction to this album. A MIDI Studio A MIDI composer talks about his career and the equipment in his studio. MIDI Basics What MIDI is and what it can do. A composer describes how he uses general MIDI MIDI in...
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Audio 40 mins
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...work on this course, please watch the video sequence ‘Introducing the Roman World’ below. This visual introduction will introduce many of the terms to be defined in this course and set them in context. It will also show the kinds of sources you might work on for evidence of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire if you continue to study this topic. You may...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...work with animals every day. And you have happy animals, you have sad animals. It’s quite obvious that they do feel emotions. It’s just difficult sometimes to interpret the language that they’re showing you as those emotions. We look at emotions in terms of welfare. And we’re certainly looking in terms of whether animals are sad and in pain. And we have recognised...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...working within an organisation. For example, you may have come across the story of the architect Christopher Wren when he was surveying the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Paraphrased, on encountering three stonemasons working on the rebuilding, he asked each the same question: ‘What are you doing?’ The reply from the first...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman
Education & Development

Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman

...worked with previously. They apologised and we moved on. However, this incident had a lasting impact on me which the person won’t ever realise and probably wouldn’t have thought of. A simple case of mistaken identity, no harm done, and I laughed it off, so they didn’t feel uncomfortable. I couldn’t help but wonder whether they had mixed me up with someone else...
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Article 5 mins
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...work together groups to resolve conflict and dissent in the group’s review of its performance. What you want to gain from this course Before you start, you may find it helpful to think about what you wish to gain from studying this course and how you can use facilitation within your role. Activity 2 Write your thoughts in this box. So now you have a definition and a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...work as Associate Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford University, I work towards this goal together with the Korean Embassy. In collaboration with exam boards we work to include Korean as one additional option among the modern foreign languages in the GCSE. However, we sense a reluctance from some exam boards and publishers that is difficult to understand. The...
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OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...work at a distance with a range of sophisticated, remote-controlled experiments and robotic apparatus. Transcript Professor Braithwaite will be joined by: Dr Tim Drysdale, Senior Lecturer (Engineering/Electronics), academic lead for the new £2.7M OpenEngineering Lab. Dr Mark Hirst, Senior Lecturer in Biology, who leads the OpenScience Laboratory. Dr Ulrich Kolb, Senior...
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