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Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...Introduction - The profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes brought about by information technology will affect every one of us. You may be wondering what digitial technology is and just what is meant by having a digital life. A fundamental idea is that digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Introduction - The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement (1969) In this course I want to offer you a panoramic view of the intellectual background to the ideas we're going to cover. There are four principal sections – 'Machines', 'Minds', 'AI' and 'Computers' – framed by this introduction and some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...Project Julian Hector, an Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit with a portfolio ranging from radio right through to television and even theatrical release. Why I work in natural history I’ve always loved animals and I’ve always loved animals actually that you can see. Latterly I’ve become more interested in small things, but I remember as a boy, I just...
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Video 30 mins
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...introduction to comparative education studies and will compare and contrast primary schooling around the world. You will look into classrooms and hear from teachers, teacher educators and policy makers from a range of education settings and countries. You will also learn about United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the agenda for free, universal, quality...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...manager Arsène Wenger, while promising, faces significant hurdles. As critically noted, its effectiveness is hampered by financial disparities: ‘The barrier... is that the cost of the courses is based on the financial resources of the organising member association,’ (FIFA, 1999), (Mazars & ASCI, 2021) a system inherently disadvantaging African and Caribbean...
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Article 10 mins
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Introduction - The aim of this free course, Sporting women in the media, is to explore how and why gender discrimination and gender inequalities exist in sport and to investigate some of the implications. There might be some biological differences which means that males and females don’t compete against each other in all sports, but these do not explain or justify why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...Introduction - This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of health and safety within a science laboratory or in the field. There are a number of legal requirements that must be adhered to before carrying out work in a laboratory. One of these is the necessity to carry out risk assessments on the chemical and biological agents that are to be used as part of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon

...projects working on Apollo samples at The Open University. Thanks to the Apollo astronauts and the curators at NASA, researchers such as myself – who weren’t even born when the Apollo Moon landings took place – are still able to study Moon rocks and feel part of a shared historical ­adventure. New research will explore the possibility of building habitats on the...
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Article 5 mins