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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
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
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Education & Development

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

...simple reason – counselling changes lives. If you would like further information about us and what we do, please visit www.bacp.co.uk. The Open University and the BACP have teamed up and have a course on OpenLearn create, as a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of the course is to offer a primer on working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist...
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Article 5 mins
Spray diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Spray diagrams

...simple, fast technique for extracting the important ideas from a situation, conversation, presentation or written article and getting them down on paper in a way that is meaningful to you. A spray diagram starts from a theme in the centre and the ideas arrange around that theme showing the connections or associations between the ideas. Sometimes it is useful to introduce...
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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
Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...code’ (have instructions) for particular products, proteins, to be produced. For example the protein pigments that give eye colour. However these sequences or some of these nucleic acid bases, are slightly different between individuals called variants, which can be inherited or changed during a person’s lifetime. These variants can span small regions of DNA and can be...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...simple Gantt chart, using a spreadsheet. If you use Microsoft Excel, it has some Gantt chart templates. The advantage of a Gantt chart is that it makes it easier to see how you can overlap some tasks, and you can mark important milestones such as submission deadlines. [Example of a Gantt chart]Figure 2 Example of a Gantt chartShow descriptionA screenshot of an Excel...
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