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Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...concepts race and ethnicity in a higher educational context cannot be fully understood without exploring the institutional structural system used to address equality and diversity. Challenge 2: Inequitable learning attainment [Student graduating wearing academic dress] Ethnicity is contributing to the widening gap in learning attainment as is evident in the recent...
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Article 10 mins
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...concept of thinking machines dates back to antiquity. Renaissance craftsmen built complex automatons to try to simulate intelligent behaviour. However, the possibility of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI) had to wait until the arrival of programmable computers in the twentieth century. Since then there have been several failed attempts. That was until the advent of...
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Video 10 mins
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...Concepts, edited by A. Finkelman and C. Kenner, second edition, pp. 85–109. Jones Bartlett Publishing. Garcia, R.L. (2020) ‘Nurses Have an Essential Role in Promoting Accurate Health Messages’, Nursing Times. Hill, B. (2017) ‘Exploring the Development and Identity of Advanced Practice Nursing in the UK’, Nursing Management, 24(5), pp. 36–40. Available at:...
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Article 5 mins
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. [2D depiction of the prop used in the movie "2001: A space Odyssey" to represent the Artificial intelligence named Hal.]This informal group laid the foundations for the first, dazzling successes in artificial intelligence. Within a few years, computers were playing games such as draughts,...
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Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...de Bernières as they talk about their own experience of writing. And you’ll have the chance to share comments and ideas with your fellow writers while sampling how established authors such as Toni Morrison and Graham Greene have written and presented their characters. By the end of the course you’ll have learned tricks such as using a journal to generate ideas, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...concepts such as institutional racism are not to ‘blame the innocent’, but to improve our understanding of the ways policies, practices, and processes perpetuate racial inequality such that they can be identified and ‘dismantled’ (Clair and Denis, 2015). Simultaneously, a narrow focus on institutional racism can obscure or absolve individual actions and actors’...
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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...concept of entanglement as a tool for exploring these interrelated factors. Using the ideas of the environmental historian Stephen Pyne, the course establishes that wildfires are entangled physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...concepts 'environment', 'technology' and 'sustainability' are discussed in the text, keep a record of where this happens and make your own notes on how each term is described or defined.) As you read through the text you will come across different technical ideas and terms. While you may well be familiar with some of the areas, it is likely that others will be new to you....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs