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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...think it is doing. Footman 477 uses a bucket and a plastic bottle with a hole to explain how allowing a trickle of people to become infected and pass through the health service avoids a greater flow of people through the health service later. From a systems perspective, this demonstration is a simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a...
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Article 15 mins
Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?

...thinks Corbyn's campaign has given a boost to everyone's prospects...Tony Blair doesn’t think much of the most likely next leader of the Labour Party. “Your heart is with Jeremy Corbyn? Then get a transplant,” was but the first of various interventions he made during the party’s protracted leadership campaign – interventions that weren’t just...
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Article 5 mins
What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...systems provide government with a backdoor to listen in. But how does Whatsapp keep users' secrets - and should we be telling them to stop?...[Whatsapp] A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users’ data. Most recently, in the wake of the...
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Article 5 mins
Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...think about how Brexit will change health care. In the following article I suggest four categories which might be used to understand the different impacts upon health care professionals. This isn’t a comprehensive list, but it is an example of how to start thinking and planning for how practice and management will need to adjust. Importantly, and as you will see,...
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Article 10 mins
What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...think and act? How do practitioners know about professional learning opportunities, and how can we facilitate them to lead their own professional learning interests? How can professional learning spaces be strengthened as site for connectivity and belonging, to strengthen their role in promoting wellbeing? [Professional learning - Current Experiences. Slide from the...
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Video 5 mins
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...think of language as existing without writing, but in the long history of humankind’s ability to use language it is only relatively recently that writing emerged. The course also looks as the vital relationship between technology and writing, and how the development of new technologies alter the way we communicate. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...Systems, Govan] Is there gold at the end of the BAe rainbow? Always good to start with a confession: we are what Brexiteers call Remoaners. As Michael Bloomberg says, “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it.” Anti-immigration sentiments, a feeling of being left behind by many voters, an uninspiring campaign by the Remain...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...systemic racism in the classroom? Christina Collins reflects on her experiences as a teacher and what needs to change...Let me introduce you to a mentoring vignette. It is 2010. I am an eye-poppingly keen Newly Qualified Teacher. I have recently been observed by my mentor Brian with my favourite class. We smashed it, I love them and this meeting is going well. Until....
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Article 10 mins