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Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...law in social care and social work This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K123 Foundations for Social Care and Social Work Practice...Introduction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the roles of social care practitioners and social workers understand what shapes people’s identities and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?

...law. Brexit should allow the UK to dump this rule, believes Hugh McLachlan...According to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, human cloning should be illegal because “everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity”. The UK’s laws have to be in line with this – but only until Brexit. Fifteen years to the month since the death of...
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Article 5 mins
Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...law You should not use LLMs to upload personal data or data that you do not own to LLMs. These forms of data are protected by various laws and, unless you have specific permission to do so, you cannot legally use them with an LLM. Do not send the contents of books, magazines, newspapers and other publications to an LLM as you do not have permission to do so. Likewise, do...
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Article 5 mins
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Law and Perryman, 2015). Today, OpenLearn’s audience is global, and its video content is also shared on YouTube, collectively reaching over 14 million people a year, rising to 22 million during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The activity, now a business-as-usual function for the OU, has been researched and evaluated to investigate the motivations of...
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Article 10 mins
Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...law which undermines them. We could also draw more extensively on the civil law and the concept of tort where compensation rather than penalty is the objective of proceedings. [Landscape image of Her Majesty's Prison in Manchester, UK] Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester The vast majority of people who break the criminal law are not dangerous and should not be considered as...
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Article 5 mins
Newsworthy Lawyers
Society, Politics & Law

Newsworthy Lawyers

...discusses the developments that led to this revolutionary change with Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times, under whose professional investigative journalism resulted in the democratisation of law... Newsworthy Lawyers Professor Gary Slapper of The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times, discuss opening up the legal system for public scrutiny....
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Audio 11 mins
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...laws and techniques that have somehow emerged from nowhere. This, of course, is not the case. Throughout the ages, it has been the endeavour of individual men and women that has made possible the growth of science and the advancement of physics. This course attempts to emphasise the cultural aspect of physics by providing biographical information about some great...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Law courses. Why would we need a theory to understand jury decision making? To answer this, it helps to think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in jury decision-making...
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Article 5 mins