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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...project he and his friend Freddie Andrade were building called Wikitongues. They were collaborating with volunteers around the world to record videos of people narrating a story or incident in their native languages. I loved the idea. Videos on Wikitongues helped me learn about many beautiful stories from all over the world that would have been totally hidden otherwise....
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Video 5 mins
Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...project to understand the pathogenesis of a rare paediatric brain cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). DIPG is currently incurable and associated with a dire prognosis. The charity Abbie’s Army is supporting this research. Where can I find more information on rare diseases? Many charities focus their work on rare diseases. As previously mentioned, they...
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Article 10 mins
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...projects and distributions to favour their select constituencies. The upshot was that the local political dynasty flourished. Sardar Yusuf had become the indirectly elected district nazim for Mansehra, the administrative district to which Balakot belongs, days before the earthquake. This left him in charge of local government in the main area benefiting from relief...
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Article 5 mins
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...projects in higher education, experimenting with the technology and badges' potential in instructional design. What's needed next, is connecting these now numerous endeavours by educational institutions, to discuss how we might develop frameworks for those core skills for which many of us are rewarding digital badges. So what next? In support of our overall endeavour to...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...project and is providing extracted units of all courses on The Open Centre in our dedicated Language and cultures hub....Introduction: Introduction - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is part of a swathe of recent technologies that have the potential to significantly disrupt, both for good and ill, societies and cultures in ways that are sure to be profound but are, as yet,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...Project AF: My name’s Alastair Fothergill, I am a director at Silverback Films, which makes wildlife TV and movies for Disneynature at the moment. How I got hooked… As a little boy I was one of those chaps who always had a snake under my bed, I always had tadpoles, much to my mother’s frustration, and I grew up for a lot of my youth on the North Norfolk coast, which...
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Video 15 mins
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...manage it finding information to improve health and wellbeing generally e.g. diet advice, weight loss. As you have seen, there are plenty of benefits and reasons to use the internet for health and care purposes. However, the internet also brings with it a wide range of disadvantages and risks. The next section will explore potential disadvantages and risks of the internet...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. This course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. It can be used to provide evidence of continuing professional development and on successful completion of the course you will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs