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Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...Introduction: Introduction - 你们好！Nĭmen hăo! Welcome to Getting started with Chinese 2! This two-week course will teach you how to ask questions using ‘what’ and ‘where’, use time expressions in the correct order and speak about different activities such as watching TV and learning Chinese. Little by little you will improve your ability to make more sophis...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...Introduction - Session 1 gives you an indication of the issues that educators need to think about when preparing to teach about the climate emergency. You’ll begin by exploring which skills learners need. You’ll then consider the important issue of climate anxiety and how learners can be supported. You’ll also question what role individual actions play in addressing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...Introduction - The body has traditionally been treated as a biological object in psychology. However, some psychologists believe there is more to our bodies than that as they recognise that it is through the body that we relate to other people and the world about us. This free course, The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective, explores one particular...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...Introduction - This course examines the roles of Scots who contributed to the comprehensive transformation of medicine in the nineteenth century. It begins by observing how laboratory practices led to improved techniques of medical diagnosis. This is followed by assessing how Scots contributed to the emerging collective identity of medical practitioners, as well as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...introduction I started writing this article on February 1st, 2017, as the House of Commons voted to trigger Article 50 starting the process of withdrawal from the EU. One week previously the UK Supreme Court confirmed that the so-called “devolved nations” of the UK, namely Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will have no veto on the process of Brexit. The...
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Article 10 mins
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...introduction of universal credit. How did you do the matching? First of all, I never relied on a single source. Some sources are more reliable than others. If all the sources agree, then we can be confident that the two records have matched. If the sources differed, then you would worry. In this specific case the best source to match records is the National Insurance (NI)...
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Article 10 mins
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...introduction. St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin. Green, D., Grieve, J., French, J., Ignatieff, M., O’Brien, M. and Skidelsky,R. (2000) Institutional racism and the police: Fact or fiction? London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Lea, J. (2000) ‘Institutional racism in policing: The Macpherson report and its consequences’, in R. Matthews and J. Young (eds)...
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Article 10 mins
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...Introduction to Decolonial Computing’, XRDS, Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students – Cultures of Computing, 22(4), pp. 16–21. Ali, S.M. (2014) ‘Towards a Decolonial Computing’ in Buchanan, E.A., de Laat, P.B., Tavani, H.T. and Klucarich, J. (eds) Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature: Proceedings of the Tenth...
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Video 15 mins