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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple. When he died of kidney failure in 1871, Charles Babbage was practically unknown to the...
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...English sentences. AI began to specialise in the 1970s into areas such as expert systems, language analysis, knowledge representation and computer vision. This served to strengthen the backbone of AI theories. In the 1980s, AI began to move at a faster pace. The public became more comfortable with science and technology as the popularity of personal computers rose and...
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Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...English School, (19th century)...Recording music and sound: 2.3 Bell and Tainter - Figure 3 ‘Graphophone’ Gramophone with Horn and Cylinders, c.1900, English School, (20th century) Following his invention of the phonograph Edison took a break from working on recording technology. Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), who had risen to prominence through his invention of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...English and Arabic to every school in Oman and it’s still being shown, not only as a film about their heritage, a film about biology, but it’s also a way for them to learn English. That I am exceptionally proud of and something I wish we would do so much more of, so easy. Why rights issues are so complex… One of the reasons why I think people find it tricky to come...
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Video 40 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...English Common Reader: A social history of the mass reading public (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957). Stephen Colclough, Consuming Texts: Readers and reading communities, 1695-1870 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey and Shafquat Towheed, ‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...English temperate woodland, how they can provide clues about the history of local woodland and how some traditional woodland management methods can benefit biodiversity. You will also learn about the importance of ancient trees as a habitat for certain rare species of insect and fungus. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment &...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...English language (e.g. IELTS band 6 or higher), and effective academic writing skills are crucial – we will look at this in Session 2. Tutorials, seminars and day schools. You will be expected to prepare for tutorials, seminars or day schools (which may be online or face-to-face), and demonstrate initiative and personal responsibility for your own learning (having...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...English. You do not need to refer to the Latin text at any point in this course. Now re-read these opening lines. As you read this time, choose two phrases that tell you something about the themes of Ovid’s poem. Note them down and briefly explain what expectations you think they offer to readers about what sort of a poem the Metamorphoses is going to be. Discussion...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs