3,392 search results
Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...out; that he had been granted temporary release pending an application to the Sentence Review Commission to have his licence restored. It was the signal that the IRA statement was now imminent. That happened the next day - July 28th 2005, but not in the usual controlled and choreographed way of these things. As I was on my way to meet the IRA spokesman ‘P O’Neill’,...
View article Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
Article 5 mins
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...out the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be that a post-Eurocentric world might assume ‘poly-centric’ form, although I understand the latter somewhat differently to the way...
View video Decolonising computing?
Video 15 mins
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...out this short survey...Introduction to critical criminology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define how critical criminology differs from mainstream criminology identify key features of critical criminological perspectives identify the theoretical building-blocks in critical criminology provide examples of the way critical...
View course Introduction to critical criminology
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...out his eager hand, And felt about the knee. ‘What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain,’ quoth he; ‘’Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!’ VI The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: ‘E’en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!’ VII The Sixth...
View course Looking at, describing and identifying objects
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...out about the role reflection plays when using OMT. In the second session, you find a variety of examples of how OMT can be used to support the reading, listening and vocabulary learning in a foreign language. Activities in French, German, Spanish and English will help you to recognise how to make OMT work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third...
View course Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...out by the voices in the choir and its regularity helped to create a feeling of calm...Week 1: The element of rhythm: 2 From pulse to tempo - The audio extracts in the previous section demonstrate how composers can make use of different tempos to contribute to the overall mood of a piece of music. Tempo can be defined as the speed or pace of the music, and is determined...
View course Discovering music through listening
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...out of the exhibitor's hand, digested it and excreted it. Vaucanson devised an elaborate system of internal pipes to achieve this, complete with a chemical digestive plant in the place of the stomach. The duck made its last appearance in the Paris exhibition of 1844, long after Vaucanson's death in 1782. Figure 2 Inside Vaucanson's Duck Game-playing automata. Another...
View course Machines, minds and computers
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...out more about a specific topic. To be able to do this, you need to know where to find sources that are relevant to you. In the next activity, you are shown different types of information source and asked to decide where they are most likely to be found. Activity 4 Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Some examples of information sources are books, journal articles,...
View course English: skills for learning
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs