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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...work, the co-authored text History of a Six Weeks Tour (published 1817), described some of their travels. [Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816.] Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816. In February 1815 Mary gave birth to Clara, who lived for only twelve days. Her journal shows that she was haunted by the sense that the death might have...
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...work on prior elicitation and develop interactive software tools that help experts express their beliefs in a structured way. These tools guide experts in expressing their beliefs in a structured way, without requiring advanced statistical knowledge. Rather than asking experts for a single number, elicitation focuses on uncertainty. Experts are often more comfortable...
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...working are all in keeping with a social constructivist view of learning. This involves connecting learning with children’s prior experience and building on their existing skills. If insufficient account is taken of children’s existing understanding (including ideas that may be incorrect), children are unlikely to see the relevance or make connections with their own...
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...work in times of unprecedented crisis, either nationally or continentally. “More Europe” is unlikely to provide a solution to the democratic malaise and anti-establishment feelings in many national landscapes. And “better Europe” will not work either if it does not address the fundamental legitimacy problems at the EU level, where integration is perceived as an...
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Scotland's patron saint...The acts of this apostle’s martyrdom, though rejected by Tillemont, &c. are maintained to be genuine by Nat. Alexander, Hist. t. 1, and by Mr. Woog, professor of history and antiquities at Leipsic, in learned dissertations published in 1748 and 1751. The authority of this piece being contested,...
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...social organisation where matters are concerned with getting or using power within a particular group e.g., there is plenty of ‘office’ politics within, and often between, sports organisations. Big ‘P’ Politics often focuses on governmental decision making, world trade agreements and global affairs. The Politics in Europe does not often address sport. Throughout...
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...work through this course, you will become familiar with the deeper levels of harmony in Mozart's piano sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained...
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...works on the effect of genre and how genre can be used. The main teaching material in this course is taken from an existing publication, The Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich (1995). Novakovich is an award-winning writer (of short stories mainly), who teaches fiction writing at the University of Cincinnati. His chapters on ‘Character’ and ‘Setting’ are...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs