Academic mini-lectures course.

Academic Listening Mini-Lectures Course

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Course Content

We’ve released a new course that will improve your academic listening note-taking skills. This mini lecture listening course is designed to improve your note-taking skills using PowerPoint slides. There are ten mini PPT video lectures on a range of subjects, detailed PowerPoint slides (PPTs) for note taking, and comprehension questions (open answer questions, gap fill, table completion and multiple choice) to check your understanding after watching the lecture.

Key skills

  • English Level B1-C2.
  • 10-12-hour course.
  • 10 mini video lectures.
  • Vocabulary building.
  • Note-taking with PPTs.
  • 3-4 minute lectures.
  • Comprehension questions.
  • Lots of listening practice.
  • All answers included.
  • Duration: 30 Days.
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What will learn on the course?

The course is divided into ten lessons: Each lesson includes vocabulary building, PPT slides, video, comprehension questions and answers.

Example of a course on Big Data

Task 1: Introduction
Do some research and take some notes on the following questions:

  1. What do you know about big data?
  2. How would you define ‘big data’?
  3. What are some of the issues with big data?
  4. How has big data changed how we live?

Task 2: Vocabulary

Check these words from the lecture:

  1. Algorithm.
  2. Public / private sector.
  3. Carbon emissions.
  4. Data breach.
  5. Explicit.
  6. Substantial.
  7. Misinformation.
  8. Privacy policy.
  9. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
  10. Fraud.
  11. Digitalised world.
  12. Not all the words are included…

Look at the reference list sources used and make a note of the names as these will be referred to in the lecture.

References used in the lecture

Dept. for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport., (2020). National Data Strategy [online]. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-national-data-strategy/national-data-strategy [Viewed 24.02.2022].

Deloitte., (2020). Changing attitudes to data privacy [online]. Available at: https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/digital-consumer-trends-data-privacy.html [Viewed 26.02.2022].

Privacy International., (2018). Big data [online]. Available at: https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/1310/big-data [Viewed 25.02.2022].

The Royal Society., (2020). The UK data governance landscape [pdf]. Available at: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/data-and-ai/digital-disruption/ [Viewed 24.02.2022].

Task 3: PPT Slides

Study these slides and try to predict what the lecture will be about:

These are key pre-lecture strategies to help you be prepared for a academic lecture.

Task 4: Lecture Video

Listen to the lecture and take notes using the four PPT slides provided: Listen two times only.

Task 5: Comprehension Questions

Now use your notes to answer these comprehension questions:

1.Gap Fill

Complete the definition of big data. The first letter is already given.

Big data refers to valuable information available in both the p__________________ private sector which is used by companies to assess how well they p____________________ and how they could improve.

 ____ / 2

2.Name ONE reason why data must be protected.

   

____ / 1

3.Open Questions

Answer these questions about what has already been done regarding data privacy.

i. Why is it more vital than ever to protect data?  
ii. What does GDPR stand for?  
iii. What can ICO help companies with?  
iv. Who does the Data …

____ / 5

Not all the questions are here: All questions included in paid lesson.

                       

1.Gap Fill

Complete the definition of big data. The first letter is already given.

Big data refers to valuable information available in both the public and private sector which is used by companies to assess how well they perform and how they could improve.

 ____ / 2

2.Name ONE reason why data must be protected.

1. Adhere to a consumer’s consent.
2. Ethical issues.
3. Security risks.
(Any of these)

____ / 1

3.Open Questions

Answer these questions about what has already been done regarding data privacy.

i. Why is it more vital than ever to protect data?  More devices per person = more data.
ii. What does GDPR stand for?  General Data Protection Regulation.
iii. What can ICO help companies with?  Data protection compliance.
iv. Who does the Data ….

Not all the answers are here: All answers are included in paid lesson.

Bitcoin Lecture Transcript

TRANSCRIPT: Hello and welcome to this short lecture about big data and privacy. Big data are large data sets, which includes information both publicly available and also from the private sector, used by companies to gain further insights into performance, such as innovation, promotion and customer satisfaction. According to The Royal Society, big data is believed to influence the business world to such an extent that it is known as ‘the new oil’, whose impacts on society are as huge as those of carbon emissions.

As the amount of data gathered from around the world has become unprecedented, coupled with the increase in the number of electronic devices per person, it is crucial to protect personal information. Data protection and privacy not only involve how data is retrieved, but also how it is stored, shared and later put to use. As stated by Privacy International, though a consumer may…

Not all of the transcript is here: Full transcript is included in paid lesson.

Task 6: Post lecture

Here are some post lecture tasks you can do:

  • Write a 100-word summary of the lecture.
  • Apply critical thinking strategies to the lecture. Use this critical thinking question document: here
  • Research other types of big data.
  • Find and read a case study on one area of big data.
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