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Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...community. The oracular text is debated back in Athens. On the one hand, the professional oracle-mongers advise staying behind, for they interpret the ‘wooden walls’ to mean the walls that surrounded Athens’ central high hill, the Acropolis. It is behind this wall that, they maintain, the Athenians will be safe. But Themistocles provides an alternative...
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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...communication; and to Rough Science's Dr Jonathan Hare about his research into Buckmeinsterfullerene. We also return to the SCHOME project (from Programme 5) and meet the students involved - in the real world! The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant, also from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science. Science in Second...
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Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...communicate with each other and us, streamlining our lives in the process. Now, you might be wondering, ‘What is the connection between all of them?’ Well, robots are often seen performing repetitive tasks and interacting with humans. But they are also a goldmine of data! Every movement, interaction and task a robot performs can be translated into valuable data. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...community, also given that it’s pretty pro nuclear, there is always the urge to production. And actually whereas Hanford [see part 1] has gone now more or less for clean-up, and that’s its job, you’ve still got this problem at Sellafield when they believe that they’ve still got a mission in terms of production. Re-processing is being phased out there. Possibly...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...communicate intelligibly with each other on the operation of this extraordinary gas.’ Davy instituted a loose reporting protocol, asking every volunteer to produce a short written description of their experience. Some subjects produced answers that were oblique but highly imaginative: one of the clinic patients answered ‘how do you feel?’ with ‘I feel like the...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...communal and political unrest, especially after the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh on 16 December 2012, three weeks before my fieldwork began, which was followed by national and international outcry and unprecedented protests. The mediatisation and public imagination of this event fundamentally restructured gender, class and age relations in Delhi (Atluri,...
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Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...communicate with them about sex and intimacy. CHARLOTTE It’s takes a lot of relationship building before you can say Helen, could you put Tom in my sexy knickers please. It’s amazing when you have that relationship that you can do that and you can feel free to do that with your PAs because, you know, sex is a health and wellbeing need like as far as we’re concerned....
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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...oral presentation to assess their understanding of the book and its contents be appropriate? It is perfectly conceivable that it is appropriate. However, consider this: imagine that a learner is asked to articulate their understanding of the book or a chapter in the book as part of a presentation to a class (formative assessment) following this they would then be assessed...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs