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Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...health pandemic, making such pedagogical and relational revisions takes on strategic importance as an element in strengthening the resilience of internationally accessible higher education. Last, but not least, there is an opportunity to develop a shared understanding of the evolving 'commonwealth' in education. This evolution is bound to become critically important on...
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Video 10 mins
AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Science, Maths & Technology

AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture

...health and disease, and identify infestation or outbreaks. An AI system makes decisions based on what it learns from past mistakes and data trends. In Machine learning (ML), a centralised model learns to perform by training on a single dataset. So, each record, data distribution, and raw data is accessible to the model. Contrary to this setup, federated learning (FL)...
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Article 5 mins
Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?

...health of the blood vessels in Alzheimer’s disease. Based on the current understanding, maintaining blood pressure within the “Goldilocks range” – not too high, not too low – is still the best course of action for reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original...
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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...health point of view), arrived in Valencia few hours later (around 1100h). The third ship was the Italian naval vessel “Orion” with 250people on board. According to the information provided by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, there were 26 different nationalities on board. The 10 main nationalities were from Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea, South Sudan, Algeria, Ghana,...
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Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...public sector challenges’ (OECD, 2017) says about change: ‘Complexity and uncertainty are now the norm—they are contexts—not just risks. The world seems to operate by a new set of rules that are difficult to observe directly… called… the VUCA1 world, which originally described the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity left behind by the end of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...publics ; des expositions temporaires qui font le lien entre science et technologie ; l’impact de la Cité sur le quartier. Figure 3...Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris: Activité 2 - Afin de mieux préparer votre étude de la vidéo, vous allez écouter des clips audio qui vous donneront une idée de la diversité des expositions permanentes organisées...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...health agenda'. There are almost as many perspectives on the environment as there are on political parties. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Sustainable Scotland: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ follow...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...health and social care workers.’ This may not seem a very encouraging start to this OpenLearn course but it is worth knowing that, despite evidence of high stress, studies have also found consistently high job satisfaction among social workers (Stalker et al., 2007; Collins, 2008). If social work is such a stressful occupation, what helps social workers to survive, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs