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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...humans suffer from a confirmation bias. What that means is that people – including you and me – tend to be biased in favour of our own thoughts and beliefs. Repeated psychological experiments have shown that humans suffer from a confirmation bias. What that means is that people – including you and me – tend to be biased in favour of our own thoughts and beliefs....
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General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...humans) having many more such genes than invertebrate species (Table 1). Whole genome duplication events, such as those that occurred in the evolution of vertebrates between 550 and 450 million years ago, were responsible for these marked differences. However, the correlation between complexity and number of genes involved in signalling is not a strict one. Thus, while a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...human being here, and this human being might have something that’s bothering them. Let’s check. Let’s do some checks. BEN: The withdrawal thing I’ve seen personally before. And then when you find families in these situations and you try to engage with them, they don’t want to engage. They’ve had enough of engaging. And these people and their families are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...human contact. Severely disabled babies are not routinely now ‘left to die’ and can develop their own potential. The importance of human contact, love and stimulation for all babies is now well established. [‘I made sure I cuddled him lots so he got used to me as I was not there all the time once I was released from hospital.’] (parent)...Understanding children:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...human body, and other aspects of ancient life. You'll discover ancient Greece and Rome in full, from the public to the personal, and from army and urban life to the lived experience of women and children. Using evidence on the hair and face, the eyes, the digestive system, the organs of reproduction and the feet, you'll explore topics with which society still wrestles,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...human activities interact with the water cycle can have devastating consequences for all forms of life. These range from the very large scale - for example, the effects of the movement of large volumes of water in a tsunami - to the molecular scale and the ability of water to dissolve solids, such as agricultural fertilisers (Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 (a) A tsunami...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. Go to Week 1...Week 1: Fictional villains: Introduction - Who is your favourite fictional villain? From Voldemort to Moriarty, from Hannibal Lecter to Cruella de Vil, villains are often the most thrilling aspect of a story and can be more exciting than the hero. It is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...human subjects. If, as suggested, cognitive development is affected by exposure to media, then this kind of research could inform the types of screen-based interactions we allow young children to have. Should parents be concerned? “They should be vigilant and careful about the amount of time and the content their children have access to,” says Christakis. Although...
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