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Creativity at Work
Money & Business

Creativity at Work

...simple, especially when it’s necessary to navigate a company through a changing landscape. Featuring a series of interviews on topics such as flexible working, the role of leadership and creating under constraint, this collection also takes a closer look at fear, bias and intuition and the role they play on shaping creative environments. It examines approaches used by...
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Video 1 hr 16 mins
Make it Digital
Digital & Computing

Make it Digital

...coding, programming and digital technology. BBC Make it Digital aims to get the nation truly excited about digital creativity. It will inspire audiences young and old through world-class TV, radio and online content. Make it Digital will also amplify the great work already taking place across the UK through initiatives with partners. The Open University has co-produced...
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Activity 5 mins
Free tech tools to help you study
Digital & Computing

Free tech tools to help you study

...simple ‘how to’ guides to make your devices easy to use. They offer step by step instructions on how to adapt your phone, computer, or tablet to meet your needs. It's easy to use and makes a useful reference guide. Use the filters to search by device, accessibility need or the adjustment you'd like to make. [Screenshot of My Computer My Way. The text on the screen...
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Article 5 mins
Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...simple rules.The already established convention for the naming of planets after ancient deities was officially adopted by the IAU. English astronomer Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of the seventh plant in 1781, had suggested “Georgium Sidus”, or George’s Star, after his patron, King George III, before Uranus was finally adopted. The ninth planet, discovered in...
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Article 10 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...simple English sentences. AI began to specialise in the 1970s into areas such as expert systems, language analysis, knowledge representation and computer vision. This served to strengthen the backbone of AI theories. In the 1980s, AI began to move at a faster pace. The public became more comfortable with science and technology as the popularity of personal computers rose...
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Article 15 mins
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...simple as instant runoff. Plurality voting and its problems In plurality voting, every voter names their favorite candidate, and the candidate named most often wins. This is the only reasonable thing to do when there are only two candidates, but it becomes problematic when there are more. The problems are well-recognized. For example, if you were every voter’s second...
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Article 5 mins
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...simple convenience (e.g. putting fruit at eye level in self-service food outlets). The nudge concept is itself based on the somewhat contradictory idea of ‘libertarian paternalism’: people need help to live healthy lives (paternalism) but such help should be not meddlesome (libertarian). The focus is on designing social environments that make ‘good’ choices...
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Article 15 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...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 the role of the coach or instructor in influencing morals in a range of environments consider potential ethical dilemmas that may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs