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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...resources. In the last 30 years, we have used nearly 30% of the Earth's natural resources. What do you think? You've heard it. It's OK. [END PLAYBACK] CHRIS BALDWIN: I mean, that's very easy. Because maybe previously, you had to go, and if the school you worked in had the technology, you had to book computers or voice recorders or tape recorders in the past. But now,...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat...The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations....
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...human emotions nor behaviour can be predicted by neat equations. But that doesn’t mean we lack any information about seasonal variations, mood swings and its deleterious effects. Research on suicide does reveal seasonal fluctuations, though it is not the cold, bleak months of winter that presage the despair associated with suicide. A study conducted in twenty different...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...humans, either. For instance, in the 1830s a French merchant snatched the body of a young African man and stuffed it in the way animals are sometimes stuffed and prepared for display. The body was then shipped to Europe and displayed for almost two centuries in various museums. The body was removed from public display only in 2000, when the remains were repatriated to...
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Article 5 mins
Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...humans. Framing anti veganism as humour is an attempt to stifle criticism, so often jokes can be more serious than they first seem. People tend to think that what we eat should just be a personal choice but veganism isn't just about our own dietary preferences. Veganism is an ethical imperative directed towards eliminating the exploitation and oppression of other animals....
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Article 5 mins
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...human or individual aspects of our relationships with the stuff we acquire. It does not explain why, in having all this stuff, many get into trouble, developing a relationship to objects that can become unhealthy for them as well as families and friends. Many of us have wardrobes full of clothes we haven't worn for years, books we rarely read and belongings from our and...
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Article 5 mins
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...human rather than a machine. 2. There isn't a clear moral or ethical framework for using technology in care. 3. Machines and robots are expensive. 4. Some people may feel uncomfortable with technology or have a 'fear of tech'. 5. Professionals may lose their jobs to machines or robots. 6. Machines can be used to keep an eye on workers by monitoring them such as when and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other'. He set London in the wider context of the development of European cities generally, and of cities around the world: 'If you go back a couple of hundred years to when the European cities really started to grow and peasants left the land to seek their future in the cities there was a...
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Article 15 mins