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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...education, and what kinds of skills are valued. You will then move on to some practical strategies and ideas for further activities and reading. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Extending and developing your thinking skills: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: feel more confident...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...Education Authority of Northern Ireland discusses what is meant by the term ‘children and young people’ and why it is important for police and others providing social and community services to engage with children and young people. As you watch the clip, reflect on the key points made and think whether you would define the term ‘children and young people’ in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...education and training for jurors. Providing jurors with information about rape myths, their impact, and how to recognize and address them can help to reduce their influence on the decision-making process (Pang, Davies and Lui, 2022). It is also important to ensure that judges and lawyers are aware of the impact of rape myths on jurors and the need to challenge and...
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Article 5 mins
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...Education on the Move in 2019: Academics and Artists working together to understand migration, participation, citizenship and Belonging...The 2019 ‘Who Are We?’ project took place for the third year at the Tate Modern and brought together academics and artists to explore migration, participation, citizenship and belonging through installations, symposia, and...
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Article 15 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...education would be out of work if it didn't! From my own experience I can say without hesitation that understanding how music works, learning how it's put together, can indeed enrich the listening experience and make one fully appreciate the finer details of what makes music 'tick'. I'm going to look at different ways of encouraging you to develop your powers of musical...
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Article 10 mins
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...technology, in many respects a huge enabler in terms of crime, in particular. We’ve seen that, in many respects, organized criminals, in particular, can be early adopters of new technologies. The only way that we can compete with that is by making sure that we ourselves stay as close to the crest of the wave of change as we possibly can. I think it was Arie de Geus that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...technologies for transport, and new ways to produce modern materials. So in order to set the scene, this course will address in more detail the two questions: why is oil important, and why do we need to replace it? A note about terminology Chemists may argue that this course should have a more precise title! The term 'oil' can have a number of related meanings - in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...Technology) for the discovery of the mechanism for autophagy, one of the key ways in which the cells in our body destroy and recycle unwanted or damaged cellular material. What is autophagy? In order for the cells in our body to function correctly, they continually renew the vital internal machinery necessary for them to survive. To balance this, there must exist...
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Article 10 mins