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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...public were the machines apparently capable of playing board games, usually chess, against human opponents. The most famous of these, The Chess Automaton, better known as The Turk (Figure 3), was built by Baron Wolfgang Von Kempelen and toured Europe in the 1770s. The Turk was a wheeled wooden cabinet, with a chessboard and a life-sized wooden figure dressed in Turkish...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...public swimming pool and chaos ensues” and “a dishevelled father loses his two sons in an adventure park”. (Carson) Her writing draws on what it means to be Irish in the modern age, whilst living alongside the ghosts of the past. [Photograph of Jan Carson. Source: Author's collection, used with kind permission]Photograph of Jan Carson - Wikimedia Commons Here is a...
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Article 45 mins
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...health and safety, and fire safety. You would need to choose a name for your business, which may become a trademark; potentially a valuable one, in which case you might later register it. You may advertise your business. You would probably need employees to help you in the business. They would have contracts of employment. On top of your obligations set out in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...public eye. But basically, I mean it’s a very good idea. It was about what public reaction would be to such a heinous crime. And it was, it was a play about social media really. And we to-and-fro’d a lot, not about the writing of it, but actually what it was going to be about. I mean the most terrible thing happened. Jo Cox, I mean we’d already commissioned it by...
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Audio 45 mins
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...health, social care, youth services and so forth. This is set against widespread evidence of deeply entrenched professional boundaries and the need to manage different professional languages across communities (Rix et al, 2013). Activity 3: Is it just us? Timing: 20 minutes Consider how people understand the process of working together. Watch this video that presents a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...health and safety in an environment in which they may be working. They may also be required to demonstrate key skills such as their ability to interpret numerical information or use technology to access information sources. In order to understand how your idea for assessment can be integrated into the curriculum you must consider the learning outcomes that you’re trying...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...health and personal freedom. Activity 2: exploratory Now go back to the document and skim the Networked microsensors and the end of the world as we know it article. Look for any of the visual clues listed earlier that could provide you with more information about the document's contents. Discussion The article uses only five sub-headings. These appear to be related to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Forensic psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...public perceptions and attitudes towards crime and penal sanctions. This course focuses on just one of these research areas, namely witness testimony, which is one of the more extensively investigated areas. Psychology research In some cases, psychologists’ research has resulted in changes to the law and legal procedures. For example, reforms to accommodate children’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs