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The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...education UK defence and national security local government the fiscal, economic and monetary system economic development immigration and nationality tourism energy: electricity, coal, gas and nuclear energy criminal law common markets civil law trade and industry, including competition and customer protection agriculture and food railways, transport safety and regulation...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...educated in the western tradition, it is often hard to escape the trap of thinking that can be described as mechanistic, linear, reductionist and systematic, with all those attributes in service of certainty and control. It is necessary to practice so as to break out of this trap, but in doing so we must be wary not to steer away from one pitfall just to walk into...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...technologies that could prevent the worst impacts of climate change – to enormous controversies over their risks and the way they could be used. More than that, climate engineering serves as a useful tool to move beyond the usual, often frustrating conversations around what to do about the climate crisis. By examining exactly what we want for our planet's climate, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...educational purpose for child readers. In the next activity, you’ll look at what children’s literature is traditionally considered to be for. [Described image] Figure 3 Writing for instruction or delight?...Approaching language, literature and childhood: 2.1 The key questions - During the rest of this section, you’ll read and reflect on some academic material over...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...technological advanced services with that of human intelligence. Dealing with the threat of misuse of encrypted applications by IS and other terror organisations, would mean that law enforcement and agencies would require access to encrypted communications. While one could argue this may compromise data security and that it should also be assessed alongside internet...
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Article 10 mins
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...and cognition: A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 605. Mae’r adnodd hwn yn rhan o ‘Gasgliad Llesiant ac Iechyd Meddwl’ wedi ei greu gan y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru. Gallwch ddysgu mwy a dod o hyd i gyrsiau, erthyglau a gweithgareddau eraill ar dudalen hafan y casgliad....
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Article 10 mins
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...technologies and practices as they concern inventories of ships’ cargo … biometric identification by branding the slave’s body with hot irons, slave markets and auction blocks as exercises of synoptic power where the many watched the few…’ (2015, p.12), furthering Fanon’s (1986) work on the negative psychical effects of epidermalized surveillance of Black...
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Article 10 mins
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...technology it’s remarkably easy to cut and paste from a source document into your assignment. What we don’t want to see is lots of gratuitous cut and paste, just because you can. What we want is the confidence that were we to talk to you about the material, you could explain it to us. This is the basis of the viva voce examination, which is still used as part of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs