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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...system are the most common cancers. Every year, in the USA alone, approximately 1 in 285 children – nearly 16,000 in total – will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday, and more than a quarter of them will have been diagnosed with a brain tumour. In most childhood brain tumours, a complete removal improves the overall survival. Olson has diagnosed babies...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...system begins to develop, and I think we're human because of our wonderful nervous systems. And 14 days is enough, because what we what to do is research in the dish, we don't want to research using surrogate mothers." On the future: "I think there will be a range of options available for curing people of disease and trauma and they will include therapies that have come...
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Article 30 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...system they used. Whilst much depends on context and the way rewards are given, competitions between classes or between readers across the school can inadvertently serve to demoralise reluctant or weaker readers. Research suggests they either remain detached from such initiatives, or feel they are letting their class down by not reading more books, more quickly (Cremin et...
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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...systems in that it dominates the international educational marketplace, academic databases and as a medium for instruction. Altbach states that “English is supplanting such languages as French, German and Spanish as the international medium of scholarship. These languages are in no danger of disappearing in higher education, but their world role has shrunk” (Altbach,...
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Article 10 mins
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...system at rest (the flat-water surface) being disturbed (the stone being tossed into the water). Then a wave is generated as the system returns to rest once more...What are waves?: 3 Types of wave - A wave may be defined as a periodic, or regularly repeating, disturbance that transports energy from one place to another. For example, a stone dropped into the centre of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...system er budd pawb: mae hyn yn cynnwys athrawon, myfyrwyr a phawb yn y sefydliad addysgol. Mae addysg gynhwysol yn ymwneud â chymryd rhan a dysgu oddi wrth ei gilydd. Nid yw addysg gynhwysol yn sefydlog – mae'n datblygu...2 Modelau meddwl: 2 Modelau meddwl - Yn Adran 1, gofynnwyd i chi ystyried eich diffiniadau eich hun o addysg gynhwysol. Yn Adran 2, rydym yn dangos...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...system. Additionally not all income will be declared to the HMRC. Again, as with household surveys, there may also be issues with confidentiality when using HMRC data...Understanding economic inequality: 3.3 Measuring income inequality - Now that you know better what income is, you’ll turn your attention to understanding how income inequality is measured. Measurements...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...system - Digit[al]isation It is worth spending a moment to consider the structural counterpart of digitisation, ‘digitalisation’. Digitalisation, as it appears in the academic context, is the conversion of the structures of collection, organisation, storage, finding, retrieval, delivery, access, and response through which we encounter objects (our libraries’ digital...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs