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AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...education or experience. Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge to think abstractly, as measured by objective criteria such as problem-solving. AI isn’t knowledgeable in the way humans are. AI systems can process, analyse, and make predictions based on the data they receive. This ability might give the impression that AI is knowledgeable, but it’s different...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...education, health, everything in fact from neighbour disputes to war." 11 UK prime ministers have had legal qualifications, most recently Tony Blair, and many world leaders are lawyers, including Barack Obama. Other law graduates include Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Derren Brown, Gabby Logan, and Gerard Butler. Law changes organically in line with social needs. Today areas of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...educational institutions, book publishers and reports such as this one from the World Health Organization. On top of this, systems thinking is used in UK policy making at both local and national government, has influenced the work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the Circular Economy and is thought to be an important facet of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...educational wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...education about the opportunities for children with disabilities to get involved with sports. We need more than just 66 hours of coverage of the Paralympics. Read the full article at Upworthy: Why #FillTheSeats is about more than just selling tickets to the Paralympic Games One of the threats to ticket sales was the Zika virus There were lots of reasons selling tickets to...
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Video 5 mins
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...education and a strong sense of national identity, and these factors interplay with the social hierarchies of its political and government structures. However, there are common risks and constraining factors beyond the moral economies I have been talking about. Some were perceived by the villagers, others were identified by the research team. Of the projects instigated by...
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Video 15 mins
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Educational Supplement looked at the teaching sector and declared that not just the winter of 2011, but the whole of the year had been a winter of discontent. But, surely, things could only get better? No. "Any hopes that 2012 is likely to be warmer should be extinguished: the forecast is bleak" warned the paper, pulling its jacket closer around its shoulders. 2012...
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Article 5 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini political system...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs