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A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain why and how sport and fitness professionals are required to work within the codes of conduct set by the relevant organisations to ensure good practice standards identify the different power relationships that can exist within sport and fitness settings and evaluate the effects an imbalance of power can cause evaluate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...study in Mathematics...Egyptian mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of how hieroglyphs were used to represent numbers and the nature of the problems that have survived understand that Egyptian calculation was fundamentally additive. Operations such as doubling and halving being used for multiplication...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Teaching a robot how to speak
Languages

Teaching a robot how to speak

...communicate? What are the challenges faced by researchers into trying to teach a machine how to speak? And what does this tell us about the nature of language itself? Transcript This material is from the Open University module L101 Introducing English language studies. See below for some other resources about the topics of artificial intelligence and the English language....
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Video 10 mins
Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class
Society, Politics & Law

Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class

...Studies at University College London. What is intersectionality? Transcript Why are race, gender, social class and intersectionality important to social research? Transcript How can social research identify and help to address inequalities based on social divisions of gender, race, class and the intersections of these? Transcript Why do you think it is important that...
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Video 20 mins
James Joyce’s Dublin
History & The Arts

James Joyce’s Dublin

...character as experienced through Joyce’s writing and how everything he experienced from the urban landscape, to the statues contributed to the work he produced. This material forms part of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... Importance of Dublin to Joyce’s writing A discussion about how Joyce’s environment in Ireland inspired his work....
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Audio 23 mins
Introducing Health Sciences: COPD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: COPD

...study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: COPD A short introduction to this album Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder Doctors and sufferers discuss COPD and the nature of the disease. Living with COPD Real life stories of people living with COPD, focusing on a support group based in Sheffield. Respiratory Clinic A look at the two tests available for examining...
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Audio 28 mins
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...studied a lot of behavioural change and I’ve studied a lot, I spent 12 years at the BBC working with digital content, trying to motivate people to care and to take action. And it’s difficult, it’s incredibly difficult. And I’ve got some tried and tested ways that you can achieve change and you can motivate people to act, but it’s a difficult ask. So I think...
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Video 30 mins
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the principles, purposes and responsibilities affecting those working with children and young people critically engage with some of the social issues that affect children and young people’s wellbeing interpret and evaluate information and literature relevant to children and young people find and use...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs