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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...think through these entanglements through a focus on 'problem' populations and 'problem' places. It includes treatment of the victims of Hurricane Katrina that hit the US in 2007, and also of the governance of urban populations in the context of Britain (council estates) and France (banlieues)...This free course, 'Problem' populations, 'problem' places, looks deeper into...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...thinking that are central to their gender development. They focus on the ways in which children attend to and then process and organise this information, and have in common a justifiable emphasis on the active role of children in shaping their own development; they are not simply passive respondents to stereotyped information that is imposed upon them. This notion of the...
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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...think they are? Discussion What strikes us about the extracts from the SHA is that they are often like lists: lists of provinces that Hadrian visited and lists of buildings that he restored, with little by way of detail or expansion. In other places the material also seems disorganised. For example, in Chapter 21 the author talks about judges, freed slaves and slaves,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...systems are faced with the challenge of controlling new infections that can spread globally in a very short time. Similarly, trade routes still transport infected goods within countries as they have always done, but air freight enables infectious agents in foodstuffs to travel between continents in less than a day. Globalisation requires global responses to prevent...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...systems to be highly flexible. Examples of this flexibility are: the same type of receptor can be coupled to different signalling pathways in different cell types; the signal can be amplified (or damped down) as it travels along the signalling pathway; it can switch on multiple pathways, leading to several cellular responses in diverse regions of the cell; information can...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...system, and the processes that may be applied to that data. These ideas are illustrated by a particular application — a supermarket till — but they are of general relevance in designing software systems. Important terminology will be highlighted in bold. In this course we will look at some commonly occurring forms of data. We start with fundamental forms, such as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...think. This is something that you must do. [MUSIC PLAYING] Video 1 A very brief history of machine translation This short video offers a concise history of machine translation, tracing its origins from 1949 to modern-day Neural Machine Translation (NMT). It explains the evolution from rule-based, example-based, and statistical approaches, highlighting key milestones, such...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...think it takes a lot of courage. And I think a lot of people who would do it will suffer because of it. But I think any movement needs a certain number of courageous martyrs. There’s no getting around it. That’s really the only thing that can be done, you have to come out and be strong enough to accept whatever consequences come. Ernestine was a Black, lesbian and...
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Article 20 mins