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Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...children – an intention reflected in the simplicity of the music and lyrics. The original performances of this melody were therefore in a more controlled environment; as indicated in the score in Figure 1, it was to be sung by children and their teacher at the start of the day while standing. Only in the 1930s were the now familiar lyrics, ‘Happy birthday to you’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...research into the measurement of innovation used by organisations. For instance, Schumpeter’s definition has been used by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to set out the Oslo Manuals to inform innovation policy (OECD, 2005; OECD/Eurostat 2018). The innovation process is defined, based on the OECD/Eurostat report (2018), as the process by...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...researcher's tape recorder, the monkeys scan the skies, whilst when a leopard call is played, they climb a tree (Seyfarth et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...centres of the spheres are ten centimetres away from each other. [A distance marker labelled ‘10.0 cm’ is superimposed on a top-down view of the experiment, and is positioned between the test charge sphere and sphere A.] So first, we’ll record the force on the test charge sphere before we put any charge on the spheres. So I’ll take the readings now. And you should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre in California, USA to connect the Centre's 'Alto' computers to an office printer. Ethernet's journey from its modest roots to become the dominant network technology is a fascinating one. One of the main reasons for its success lies with the decision to publish the standard. Standards that are available to anyone in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...centre, the one through which everybody else is positioned so the deserving, the single mother who's the widow, whose husband may have died in the Gulf or in Kosovo, in that sense she's deserving and entitled to the range of benefits, and there's no question about her. But the label single mother somehow, as a definitional sense, doesn't really conjure her up, that's not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...Researchers and analysts alike use this tool for various applications in the real world, such as in business, medicine, academia, logistics, operations, transportation, tax and auditing, marketing, accounting and finance. Moreover, it is flexible enough to be used with all types of data, irrespective of whether the data is qualitative or quantitative. In this section, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...research actually revolves around an invention of sorts, but rather than innovating in new areas of material science my colleagues and I have been trying to design something that could be manufactured locally and easily repaired. Our Open Source Condom Vending Machine (OSCVM.org) is an attempt to build reliable, low-cost condom vending machines in Ghana. All the...
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