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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...social media, from diverting blame to touting unverified cures. What are your thoughts about it? Elisabeth: I am sad to see how gullible and not-critical some people are. It seems that suddenly everyone is an expert in viral epidemiology and anyone who says something online about a new way to solve the COVID-19 crisis will quickly gain a lot of followers. Unfortunately,...
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Article 10 mins
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...Social Sciences qualifications. Background From its inception in 1948 the National Health Service (NHS) has been dependent on migrant labour. Following an NHS recruitment drive in Malaysian secondary schools, Sofi Taylor left Malaysia for Scotland in 1973 to train as a nurse. In Malaysia Sofi came from a wealthy family. Her only sister was training to be an accountant...
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Article 5 mins
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...social justice in terms of greater recognition, one aspect it did reveal was the gender inequity in regard to the publicising of deaths by police using excessive force. Before this time, the lives and experiences of black women and their relationships with the criminal justice system, in particular the police, remained virtually hidden. It was argued by Jamila Aisha Brown...
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Article 15 mins
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my husband Alan was dying, one of the thoughts that haunted me every day I cared for him was: soon I would become a widow. I was 60 and Alan was 63 when on 21 November 2017 he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. We had met in 2006 and married in 2014 and neither of us had children from our previous...
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Article 5 mins
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...social and economic ideas. Most of these derived from Enlightenment notions and, he thought, could eliminate poverty and crime, contributing to social and moral betterment. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...interactive whiteboard to support whole class discussion, or on laptops or iPads to support group work. Also, the iOS app can be used outdoors on iPads or iPhones. The Android app can be used on mobile devices running the Android operating system. [A screenshot from the app shows a bar graph with green. orange, yellow and blue bars against a grey background. The vertical...
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Article 5 mins
New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...interactive toolkit. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Choose health Quarantine is bound to have an impact on our physical and mental health. Maybe you'd like to use this as an opportunity to go on health kick, or maybe you want to concentrate on your mental health and wellbeing instead - we've got you covered with our...
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