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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...education, training and experience. Skills such as management, financial planning, mathematical aptitude and business strategy all fall within the scope of the professional engineer. This course does not attempt to teach these skills, but within it you will find pointers towards them and their significance in the engineering context. This OpenLearn course provides a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...education and training’ could be an issue here as the coaches did not seem to adopt good practice or possibly appreciate how this culture may impact the athletes involved. It could be questioned whether this was ‘a safe environment.’ The case study describes ‘belittling, public humiliation, shouting and generally aggressive and intimidating behaviour’ by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...technologies that help surgeons see inside the body before they cut, many of which were developed to help diagnose cancer. Ultrasound – bouncing high-frequency sound waves off structures within the body to see what they look like – was pioneered in 1942 by Karl Dussik, a neurologist at the University of Vienna, who attempted to locate brain tumours using essentially...
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Article 5 mins
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...technologies are now implicated in complicated and contradictory ways, in every stage of the refugee journey. But it also shows the creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new lives through...
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Video 5 mins
Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...technological realities of learning and studying. Three approaches, or a mixture of them, may help us to solve the dilemma: It is essential there are clear definitions of what constitutes good and acceptable academic practice in the respective assessment context. Rules for the uses of translation tools and citations, and established formal policies regarding student use...
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Article 5 mins
British Science Week
Science, Maths & Technology

British Science Week

...technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK for people of all ages, coordinated by the British Science Association. To find out what is going on across the UK to celebrate, visit the British Science Week Event Calendar and keep up to date by following British Science Week on Twitter. To celebrate we have compiled a range of FREE resources for you...
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Article 1 hr 30 mins
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women. ...Google ‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Women’. Now have a look at ‘Professional Hairstyles for Women’. Notice anything? In a popular magazine article about the understudied relationship between Black women and their hair,...
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Article 5 mins
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...technologies or on reports from the “Facebook community,” but that concept is a bit like McDonald’s declaring itself a “community of hamburger eaters.” There is nothing in particular that ties Facebook users together, aside from a basic, unremarkable pleasure that human beings take in connecting with one another. And Facebook does not have terms of use—it has...
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Article 5 mins