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What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...concept: "Fauxpen," which is defined as "a description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full freedoms required by the Open Source Definition. Sadly, this is the negative impact of open source software's success. I'm seeing more and more companies, undertaking more and more egregious marketing and promotion schemes that exaggerate their...
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Article 5 mins
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...concept of women's choice are particularly significant. Safe motherhood? The medical model of childbirth assumes that the female body is always ready to fail. Indeed, childbirth is seen as a highly risky business. The majority of women who give birth in hospital do so because they assume that a hospital birth is safest. However, all the research evidence that exists...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...concepts as tweens, webinars, frenemies and sexting. The model for ‘Brexit’ was, of course, the debate about Greece’s possible exit from the Eurozone, or ‘Grexit’; a word which was also first used in 2012. But although the component parts of both these words are directly analogous, the connotations they have are markedly different. Grexit was predominantly used...
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...concept (in moving away from ‘World Religions’ towards ‘lived religion’)? How can these challenges be better addressed? How can equality, diversity and inclusion be more effectively promoted in the curriculum? What challenges could this potentially pose for staff and students? How can these challenges be better addressed? To address these questions, we set up a...
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Article 25 mins
Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...concept that neurological differences are to be recognised and respected as any other human variation. The term ‘neurodiversity’ was coined by the Australian sociologist Judy Singer in 1998, and stands in opposition of viewing people as ‘suffering’ from deficits, diseases or dysfunctions in their mental processing, suggesting instead that we speak about...
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Article 10 mins
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...concept of heritage and its critical study, exploring the role of heritage in both past and contemporary societies...What is heritage? This free course will introduce you to the concept of heritage and its critical study, exploring the role of heritage in both past and contemporary societies....What is heritage?: Introduction - This course introduces the concept of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...concepts: the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. These form the backbone of the testing process and guide our interpretation of the results. The null hypothesis is denoted as H0. It serves as the default assumption, positing that there is no relationship between variables or that a population parameter equals a specified value. For instance, if we are testing...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...concepts...Improvisation and composition are words frequently used in the western world to describe the creation of music. But are they really two distinct processes, or are they aspects of the same phenomenon? In this free course, Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective, we will explore the relationship between the two using examples of Asian music to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs