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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...work. Apprentices new to distance learning say they may not feel confident with the skills they already have; this free course will help to support you in becoming a confident distance learning apprentice. It will guide you through five simple interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessments,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...succeeding. Afterwards Michael’s finger was still numb, meaning that the real pain would come later. A dissolvable string remained inside, which he would need to pull out within ten days. Michael had paid €100 for the magnet and implantation. “What can I say?” he laughed, gazing at his newly transformed digit. “I was sitting there thinking for a moment, ‘Why...
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Article 10 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Work, or watch a minute-long video on 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity (see the animation below). Operating as a four nation university, OpenLearn has free resources representing all of our nations including an interactive on Welsh language and culture and a free course, Discovering Wales and Welsh: First Steps; a timeline on the history of Ireland taken from our...
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Article 5 mins
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Work, or watch a minute-long video on 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity (see the animation below). Operating as a four nation university, OpenLearn has free resources representing all of our nations. You can find most of the relevant content in these hubs: OpenLearn Ireland, OpenLearn Scotland, and our Wales hubs: OpenLearn Wales and OpenLearn Cymru (for English and...
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Article 20 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...worked in many remote locations, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, to reveal the beauty, complexity and the threats facing some of the planet’s last great wildernesses and their inhabitants. Transcript Earth in Vision Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is Caroline Underwood and I’m now a senior producer at the CBC’s science series called The...
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Video 30 mins
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...work through this course you will frequently be thinking about the audiences (or readers) for written texts. But for the purposes of the next activity we will move away from the printed page so that we can listen to some examples of famous speeches, and begin to analyse their effects. Listen to the following audio, ‘Speeches and speech-making’, and then answer the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...succeeded until David Smith in 2023. [A hat aligned to its underlying grid.] The image above is of the hat, aligned to its underlying grid. Smith’s tile was based on the hexagon, which allows it to cover the infinite surface. But Smith also noticed that the patterns it created seemed to be aperiodic. Nicknamed “the hat”, this tile was proved to be aperiodic in a...
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Article 5 mins