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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...public attention didn’t just shine a light on AI. It reignited a bigger conversation about ethics across the whole design and technology landscape. It felt that ethics had ‘regained traction,’ and designers started thinking more about the ripple effects of their work. But ethics is fuzzy One of the challenges with design ethics is that no one fully agrees on what it...
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Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Society, Politics & Law

Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

...public transport and regulations within housing. To give one example, women I spoke with who lived in one accommodation facility run by SERCO said that they had been told they would be reported to the Home Office for leaving bedroom doors open that could be a fire hazard. In this way, everyday actions become border offences. [A piece of paper is stuck up on a yellow...
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Article 10 mins
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...health, despite experiencing adversity.’ Their review also identified ‘the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the lifespan; and the interaction of resilience in different ways with major domains of life function’. This perspective becomes very relevant when starting to look at that major function of life – your career. Resilience is a characteristic that we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...Health Promotion at The Open University. In this chapter Douglas argues that, in order to work effectively with young African-Caribbean women, practitioners ‘must have some understanding of the lives and contexts of young black women’. She maintains that practitioners working with young black women need to understand the complexity of their lives and to resist the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...health services and by local authorities is known as ‘public service’ translation. Other prominent forms of translation include localisation, videogame translation, subtitling, dubbing and audio description. Many aspiring translators are attracted by the idea of literary translation of fiction, theatre or poetry. This is an area in which it is difficult to make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...public while the encapsulated data and operation implementation are said to be private. The operations provide all the information that anyone using a date would need. There is never a need to access the underlying representation of the date. If the representation needs to change, only the implementation of the operations on date need to be rewritten. All clients are...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...public spaces and how to get by in a Hispanic city...Do you want to improve your language skills and communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish? This free course, Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around, concentrates on Spanish as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into Hispanic societies and cultures through authentic printed and audio...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...public services will be accessible online, and billions of pounds have been spent to get computers into schools and local communities. The language used by politicians has drawn strongly on the inevitability of technological change and the need to be at the forefront of these changes in order to secure future prosperity. One of the discussions about IT concerns whether...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs