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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...become a possible input and output device for us to access a seamless computing experience customised to our own particular needs, and fed from our own personal repository of information stored privately and securely in what we today call the “cloud”, but in the world of 2045 might simply be our digital essence. It’s hard for us to imagine it now, surrounded by...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...become more complex human and nuanced human beings through their interactions with other human beings. Their idea of their social identity comes from everyday interactions and early on, children display favouritism towards those who share the same or similar social identities. In-group bias means favouring people who look like us or who are like us in other ways, showing...
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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat them. The second covers the important role that microbes play in treating sewage to purify the water so that it can be returned to rivers or to the sea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SG071 Learn about microbes...Microbes – friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...student at the OU, you’ll also have access to tutors and subject specialists who can provide additional support. Initially, you may find it daunting to read a piece of code, but just like any language, the more you look at it and the more you use it, the more familiar it will become. And, just like any other text, code can be edited. The kind of edits you will have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...students with an accessible introduction to phenomenological psychology and its application to understanding embodiment. Watch the following video ‘The Phenomenological Perspective Part 1’. DARREN: First and foremost I think phenomenological social psychology is about lived experience. Experience as people live it in their day to day lives. DR LINDA FINLAY: It’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...student union. We met at the Maison Française d’Oxford to discuss “art, science and diplomacy for a plural world on a challenged planet”. Like most of the audience, the panellists were most eager to hear what the shaman, Indigenous diplomat and scholar, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, had to say. Davi Kopenawa is a co-author (with Bruce Albert) of The Falling Sky (2013)...
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Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...student in Religious Studies at The Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...My doctoral research focuses on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari. I am interested in de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different...
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En rumbo: intermediate Spanish
Languages

En rumbo: intermediate Spanish

...student. He talks about what he likes to do. Making suggestions and plans and responding to them We’re going to listen to two conversations where two women are making plans. What will they do? When? Who are they going with? The future We’re going to listen to Paloma, a woman from Spain, talking about her holiday plans. She is planning to go on two breaks. Where is she...
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Audio 35 mins