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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...education can help, you may want to further explore OpenLearn, FutureLearn or organisations like Men’s Sheds Cymru. For further support, Ageing Well in Wales have developed a pocket guide to help with loneliness. Although this is aimed at older people, the advice is universal in helping with feelings of loneliness and making connections. Mental health problems This...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...education, and by her teenage years was becoming recognized as a mathematical prodigy. In addition to whatever natural talent she possessed, Ada was driven to the exploration of mathematics by her mother; who saw in logic, a cure for the madness that had afflicted Lord Byron. Ada was taught by and corresponded with many of the leading mathematicians of her day, including,...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...educated at home and reputedly learned Chinese by listening outside the door while her father taught her brother. She married at about the age of twenty but her husband died soon after, leaving her with a daughter. She then lived quietly for some years. In 1004 Murasaki entered the service of the Empress Akiko, possibly due to her talent for story-writing. No one knows...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...educated observers in techniques of engaging with the image that anticipated cinematographic techniques such as tracking, where the camera moves through space, and panning, where the camera swivels on a stationary point. [An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London] An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: showing the battle of...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...education. The ten words she chose (Figure 3) look very different to Sevasti’s because they have very different research interests. Your ten words will be unique to you and your interests. To design a draft research question, you could look to how these words could be combined. For example, a question that comes out of Ann’s ten words in Figure 3 might be: how...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...education, so you’re basically stigmatised for life. We have thousands of Black and Latino men, who have basically been pushed out of society – permanently – as a result of their involvement in drugs, which means that they’re not able to be good fathers to their children, to be good partners to the women and the mothers, the people in their lives. It means that...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...educational practices will be greatly improved by doing A.I. It’s possible that our brains are too complicated to be understood by something as simple as our brains." [A microchip held between thumbs] The Arguments: Amanda Sharkey [Amanda Sharkey] Dr Amanda Sharkey is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. She is director of the...
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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...education. SONJI MITCHELL: Financial. So very holistic assessment, which should really pick out a lot of information. DR ELIZABETH VENABLES: Because I use hardly any, I think. DR MARION BATES: Yeah, it’s hard, isn’t it? Yeah. I mean, it’s hard because when you’ve been a clinician for a while, you don’t really remember the kind of standard, a structured tool that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs