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Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...article written by Langston Hughes for the newspaper, the Chicago Defender. Do you think this article is presenting a positive or negative view of musical life in Chicago? Reading 1 Langston Hughes, ‘Music at year’s end’ Discussion Hughes eloquently describes the night-club scene, making it sound modern and quite attractive. However, he also suggests that the singer...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...et al., 2021), nodir bod angen ail-ddyfeisio, a chynigir y naw hanfod canlynol y bydd cwmnïau sy'n barod at y dyfodol yn meddu arnynt. [Y ddelwedd a ddisgrifir] (De Smet et al., 2021) Ffigwr 7 Naw hanfod sefydliadol ar gyfer cwmnïau sy'n barod at y dyfodol Gall y tueddiadau a'r hanfodion fod yn feysydd yr ydych chi eisoes yn eu hystyried, ond mae cyflawni strategaeth...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...articles (papers) and submit them to a journal. The journal editor sends the paper to several referees, all of them experts in the authors' field (i.e. their 'peers'). Referees can typically chose one of three recommendations: acceptance, rejection or acceptance after certain specified changes are made. The third option ('revise and resubmit') is by far the most common....
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...et cetera. So we looked all these things up. I learned about Grunt. And we started, kind of this step forward from taking this from a prototype or a proof of concept to something that could be a little bit more. And the whole time we were kind of like, what are getting into here? It wasn’t ever like, OK, we’re going for this, we’re doing this. But we started getting...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...article above was sold at Christie’s auction house in London in 2006. The objects were sold as ‘alienable goods’ (things that can be exchanged for money, goods or services). However, some objects, including the netsuke, were not actually sold, they were exchanged with the government in lieu of paying inheritance tax. The netsuke performed a final function for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...articles that you have been collecting for your resource file. And when you make notes you may make notes on the course texts themselves in the margins, you may make notes on cards or in a notebook or you may record notes for yourself onto a cassette tape. But however you do it, what you are doing is keeping a record, but crucially it is not a minute or a verbatim record...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...article, watching a TV programme or trying to solve some problem we have, involves some sort of learning. The trick of course is to spot these learning opportunities as they come along, but that all takes time. So a key point for this week is how to make best use of your time. Another important aspect of Week 2 is thinking about confidence, because lack of confidence can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...series of easy stages in the direction of these advanced activities. Source: McCarthy et al. (1955) Some of these proposals were not followed up; others came to be the core of Symbolic AI research in the ensuing decades. To simplify the above discussion, just let me isolate two key principles which certainly did become central – these are: Representation – 'Intelligent' computer systems contain a model, in some logical or ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs