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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...simple stuff. So I don’t think there’s a consistent aim in everything we do. We are a magazine format. But we certainly believe that a lot of the statistical takedowns that we do, you could do yourself at home without any particular statistical training. It might take a Google search or two, often not even that. Just a little bit of common sense and ask yourself some...
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Audio 20 mins
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...simple for somebody to take that programme and put it online and share it however they want to. So we can try and fight that and we do, organisations, television broadcasters fight that, they have a team of lawyers who constantly search online, they search YouTube and they are forever putting in claims of copyright against people who are sharing the programmes on their...
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Video 30 mins
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...simple text file in the CSV format that you can then load into a spreadsheet or other data analysis tool. The UN Data Explorer also links to various other population related datasets: UN Population Division (UNPD) World Population Prospects UN Statistics Division (UNSD) Demographic Statistics By looking at population and demographic data from a variety of perspectives, we...
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Video 30 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...simple one, which I found my students were quite surprised by, but very interested by, was the question of public transport, they hadn’t thought of that as a woman’s issue. But when I gave them some reading around the, you know, A) that women have less access to private transport, when they thought about their own lives, about sometimes being afraid to go out at night...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...simple interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessment, becoming digitally ready, and effective engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be a distance learner. After studying this course you should be able to:...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography (University of Virginia Press, 2003). Donaldson, Sandra, The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 5 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). The Harold Acton...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...simple information displays, which let us check things such as weather forecasts and transport timetables, to interactive sites that allow us to make bookings or enquiries. In many parts of the world, medical records are increasingly moving away from paper and X-ray film towards becoming completely digital. This has several advantages, especially in allowing patients’...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...simple entertainment? The amount of digital technology available to my young son is massively different to that in my own childhood. As both a parent and a psychologist, I’ve found it difficult to make sense of media reports and research findings in this controversial area. Is technology beneficial or detrimental to child development? Does screen time lead to increased...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs