This engineering course covers the fundamentals of communication acoustics - the way sounds travel to a receiver, originating from a source and conducted through a channel. We will look at the different system components involved in acoustic communication, including those between humans, between humans and machines, and between machines. The various topics covered include Speech Acoustics, Hearing Acoustics, Electroacoustics, the Human Auditory System, and Digital Audio Processing methods. You will learn from top experts in the field of communication acoustics, all of whom are affiliated with the leading Universities of Technology in Germany. Together, they have pooled their expertise in order to teach a comprehensive basic understanding and share the most current research trends with you. After completion of the course, you will have gained a broad understanding of the involved subdomains. You will also be ready to attend the continuation course, “Applications in Communication Acoustics,” offered by edX.

ひらがなのある説明（せつめい）は こちらをクリック してください。 您可以查看网頁，动画在XuetangX One of the most challenging aspects of learning Japanese is pronunciation. Most non-native Japanese speakers, whether basic level or advanced, have experienced at least one situation when they were misunderstood or couldn’t share their true feelings because of incorrect pronunciation. If you are a Japanese learner, anywhere around the world, this language course has been designed to help you improve your pronunciation, and give you confidence in spoken Japanese. Join Professor Toda at WasedaX to practice your pronunciation, improve your communicative Japanese and become a confident Japanese speaker. 日本語を学ぶうえで最も苦労することのひとつが発音です。 日本語を外国語として話す人の多くは、その習熟度に関わらず、発音が正確でないばかりに、誤解を与えてしまった、あるいは真意を伝えることが出来なかった、という経験を一度はしたことがあるのではないでしょうか。 本講座は、世界中の日本語学習者にとって、正しい発音で、自信を持って「伝わる日本語」を話せるようになるための手助けとなるはずです。 戸田先生と発音練習をし、伝わる日本語を身に付け、自信を持って日本語を話せるようになりましょう。

Los vídeos serán en español o inglés. Se ofrecerán subtítulos en ambos idiomas. Las actividades se realizarán en ambos idiomas. *Videos will be in English or Spanish. Transcripts in both languages will be provided. __The assessments will be in both languages . Este curso presenta las nuevas tendencias y formatos del documental audiovisual contemporáneo, prestando especial atención a las prácticas más innovadoras en un contexto interactivo, transmedia y multiplataforma. Incluye una aproximación a los géneros y autores fundamentales, y cuenta con la participación de profesionales del sector, documentalistas y académicos. A través de vídeos, infografías, animaciones y timelines y un amplio repertorio de recursos y materiales complementarios, se busca ofrecer al alumno claves creativas y eficaces en el momento actual. Este MOOC consta de los siguientes módulos: El documental está de moda. Flashback: Introducción a la historia del documental. Documental web: Reinvención del documental en Internet. Ciberactivismo y documental político en el ecosistema viral. F for Fake o falso documental a ritmo de social networking. Documental de divulgación: Naturaleza, cultura, historia, ciencia. Documental de creación en tiempos de crowdfunding. Brand-Documental: Nuevas estrategias publicitarias. This course features new trends and formats in contemporary documentary film with a focus on innovative works in an interactive and multi-platform environment. It includes an overview of essential authors and genres, as well as the contribution of national and international scholars, professionals of the field and documentary makers. The learning experience is enhanced with videos, slideshows, infographics and timelines, to provide the learner with an interactive, reflective and entertaining experience. This MOOC is divided into the following segments: Documentary film is in vogue. Flashback: Introduction to documentary film history. Web documentary: Reinventing documentary film on the Internet. Cyberactivism and political documentary in a viral ecosystem. F for Fake or false documentary moving to the rhythm of social networking. News and thematic documentary: Nature, culture, history, science. Creative documentary film in times of crowdfunding. Brand-Documentary: New strategies in advertising.

Do you feel innovation activity in your organization is ad-hoc? Are you looking for a systematic approach through which innovation capacity can be enhanced in your organization? Do you want answers to questions like what is innovation in business, what is innovation in entrepreneurship, importance of innovation in business, innovative ideas for business growth, and why businesses need to innovate, etc. Thiscourse will show you how you can build aninnovation pipeline, improve idea velocity and enhance business impact through an8-steps approach.Moreover, we will also explore ways of sustaining participation in innovation activity. You will get to learn some of the industry best practices. And also learn to apply the tools in your own context. For example, you will learn to create a challenge book that articulates the key challenges in your organization. Similarly, you will find ways to design low-cost experiments. Whether you are in a start-up or a large organization, in a hi-tech or low-tech business, product or services business, thiscoursewill have something for you to apply in your context and make your organization more innovative.

Although there are some robots you might never get to meet (or might hope you never meet), such as those sent to space, war or rescue situations, many other robots and bots are being developed to populate people's homes, the online spaces they frequent, their workplaces, and the social spaces they visit. This course explores how people communicate with robots and bots in everyday life, both now and into the future. Module 1 discusses the difficulties of defining what a robot is, as well as briefly introducing bots. Module 2 focuses on bots, chatbots and socialbots in detail, to consider how people communicate with these programs in online spaces, as well as some ethical questions these interactions raise. Robots in the home are the subject of Module 3, with a discussion of robots designed to act as personal assistants leading into some examples of assistive and care robots, as well as telepresence robots that allow people to interact with one another at a distance through a robot. Module 4 considers robots at work, from the potential of telepresence robots to enable remote operations, to robots designed to share people's workspaces, and potentially even take their jobs. One example of a public space where robots might alter people's working and social lives greatly is on the roads with the development of self-driving vehicles, robots that need to be able to communicate with their passengers as well as with other road users.

This course is part of the University of Cambridge’s MicroMasters program in Writing for Performance and Entertainment Industries. We will be looking in depth at how to build a screenplay that communicates its central meaning through strong visual images. How do we write a script containing almost no dialogue? And when we do have to use speech, what constitutes successful dialogue for the screen? How will film genre and history influence your writing? What is the difference between a tagline and a logline? How do you write an effective outline of your script for a producer to read? What is a ‘story bible’ and when do you need one? All these questions and more will be answered. We will be thinking comparatively about screenplay advice from film and TV industry gurus such as Robert McKee and John Yorke - as well as asking you to find your own habits and practices as writing methodology. We will critically analyse the work of filmmakers such as Jeremiah Mosese, Mustashrik Mahbub and Melina Matsoukas. How do our global film and TV industries reflect our social and cultural concerns and needs today? The work of James Frey ( Queen and Slim ), Michaela Coel ( I May Destroy You ) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge ( Fleabag, Killing Eve ) will inspire us to find the stories within ourselves than can change the world. Successful visual communication is a vital skill in any workplace. Visual images are the fastest way to communicate the most information possible in the shortest possible time, and a strong intuitive and strategic grasp of this process will offer you an in valuable creative toolbox for expert communication in any professional sphere. Skill transferability, flexible thinking, and expert language abilities are now essential in a diversifying global job market - come and learn essential new skills, and have fun doing it! You will be set writing exercises over the course of the module, and you will asked to keep a brief creativity journal to note how your ideas progress and how your intuition leads you into productivity. By the end of this module, you will have completed several new scenes of a screenplay, with a considered plan for the structure of the entire piece of work. You will have reflected on how social and cultural mores can become useful themes to create commercially successful work.

This course is part of the University of Cambridge’s MicroMaster’s program in Writing for Performance and Entertainment Industries. How can you utilise the innovative creative world of online digital platforms to advance and create new material as dramatic writers? We will be looking in depth at how to find an digital form that stimulates you as a writer. Do you want to write interactive gameplay ‘script’ for the video game industry? Or learn how to write soundscapes for radio drama and podcast plays? Perhaps you want to create new content for your own YouTube channel? We will be looking at how narrative skill and digital production coincide in all these mediums. We will consider successful professional examples of digital narratives; look deeply into the changing form of scriptwriting in the video game industry, as well as acquire a knowledge of how to reach a target audience online. This is a comprehensive introduction to writing and innovating digital content. Learning to write for online platforms, and how to communicate most effectively with an online audience, is now an highly transferable skill for any profession. Digital expertise, flexible thinking, and expert storytelling abilities are now essential in a diversifying global job market - come and learn essential new skills, and have fun doing it! You will be set writing exercises over the course of the module, and you will asked to keep a brief creativity journal to note how your ideas progress and how your intuition leads you into productivity. By the end of this module, you will have completed several pieces of script in a range of digital mediums of your choice.

This five-week course will help you identify reliable information in news reports and become better informed about the world we live in. We will discuss journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience. Together, we will examine the following topics: What makes news? The blurred lines between news, promotion and entertainment. Why does news matter? Social sharing and the dynamics of the news cycles. Who provides information? How to evaluate sources in news reports. Where is the evidence? The process of verification. When should we act? Recognizing our own biases. How do we know what we know? Becoming an active news audience. If you are interested in becoming a more discerning news consumer, please join us and sign up today.

Strong leadership is regarded as one of the best predictors of organizational success and critical human capital required for career progression in almost every organization. However, leadership is also a highly complex and often misunderstood phenomenon. It‘s hard to define, but we all know good and bad leadership when we see it. This course will equip aspiring leaders with an understanding of what leadership is and how an individual can develop the skills required to become an effective leader in their organization. Taught by instructors and presenters with decades of business and not-for-profit leadership experience, you will learn the difference between leadership and management, the importance of understanding others and building empathy and relationships, and gain a better understanding of the different leadership styles you may encounter throughout your career. Learn through a series of engaging videos, interviews, case studies, written reflections, peer feedback, and other self-insight activities. Our instructors and faculty will help you identify your own values and ethics as a leader, and most importantly, build your self-efficacy, your confidence and belief in your own ability to achieve intended results.

Are you finding it difficult to start the conversation, or find the right words when communicating in English? Do you know how to start and end conversations in a polite way? Do you want to learn more about American, British, Canadian, Australian, South Korean, Colombian, and Chinese cultures? If so, you’ve come to the right course! 语言最重要的功能就是交流。在交流中我们要知道如何开始一个对方感兴趣的话题，回答别人的提问，自然、流畅地完成一个对话。本课程选取了8个主题，由50多位来自美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚、哥伦比亚、中国的老师及各个年龄段的学生，在真实的场景中，用最地道的表达和最纯正的英语，带你谈论日常生活、学习的方方面面。 本课程分为八个单元，每个单元有一个主题，分别是： 1、个人信息的介绍与交换 2、我们的家人和朋友 3、饮食与用餐 4、英语学习的目的和方法 5、假日活动和难忘的经历 6、兴趣爱好 7、情感表达 8、保持健康 每个主题由十余组对话和小组讨论，外籍老师的中西方文化差异介绍，中国老师的重点词汇、句型讲解，听力理解练习和口语测试构成。通过学习和练习，你将可以和讲英语的朋友们自如地交谈、讨论与主题相关的任何问题。本课程的学习方法有很多。英语学习者可以在反复地听和跟读对话的过程中，不断积累语言素材，和你身边的朋友或同课程的学习者进行对话练习；英语教师可以选用本课程中适合的主题，组织学生进行听说训练，组织高效课堂。也许你不能理解每段对话的全部内容，只需听懂大意，随着课程的进展，你听懂的内容会越来越多。让我们一起实现一次英语听说的飞跃吧。 本门课程在制作过程中得到了香港伟新教育基金和Google公司的资助，特此鸣谢。