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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...par excellence ... It pits two intellects against each other in a situation so complex that neither can hope to understand it completely... If one could devise a successful chess machine, one would seem to have penetrated the core of human intellectual endeavour. Source: Newell et al. (1958) Although the authors might not have realised it, these insights were to define...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...par l’image sous le Premier Empire. A Propos d’un concours officiel pour la représentation de Napoléon sur le champ de bataille d’Eylau’, L’Ecrit-Voir, 1984, 4, pp. 9, 20. Translated for this volume by Emma Barker. When and where exactly does the scene take place, and how does this contribute to the propaganda function of the proposed picture? To what extent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...par le manufacturer à un distributeur dans des circonstances qui empêchent le distributeur, ou l’ultimate acheteur ou consommateur, de découvrir par l’inspection un vice ou une défectuosité, le manufacturier á un devoir légal vis-á-vis l’ultimate acheteur ou consommateur d’agir comme un bon pére de famille et de voir á ce que l’article soit libre de...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...par takes of it, and as such it is directly implied in imperialism. Eugene Delacroix: The Moroccan Journey - Part Two Click below to view part 3 of the video Eugene Delacroix: The Moroccan Journey. Professor William Vaughan He is somebody who is going to Algiers and Morocco at a time when France is beginning to take over those countries and he is a part of an imperialist...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...par with national laws. The percentage of European directed environmental law and regulations applying in the UK is hard to determine for a range of complex reasons, but is estimated to be in the region of 50% for environmental areas (Miller, 2010). As you can see from the above listing, just the directives alone cover many aspects of environmental management, which will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...PAR) is research involving collaboration between groups of people with a legitimate personal interest in solving a problem that affects them directly. Together they define the problem, learn how to study it, design the research, analyse the outcomes and design and execute the necessary actions (Lewis-Beck et al., 2011)...Session 4: Students as partners and ethical...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...par with or outperform children educated in one language. Children educated in GME are at an advantage learning other ones. Bilinguals can access different literatures and more ways of thinking and acting. Gaelic bilinguals have a better understanding of their place in wider Scottish culture identity, and are able to access many career opportunities. Children experiencing...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...vision and gauge the public reaction. Socrates dismissed the public arts as being on a par with pandering to people's want of immediate gratification rather than accepting a degree of pain for the long-term ‘good’. Putting this within the context of technology, Socrates’ view requires you to have the knowledge to help you see the longer term; for instance, that a product may in the long term give you a waste disposal ......
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs