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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...Researchers evaluate the benefits of combining art with health. Opera and health Homeless people using performing art to help maintain a degree of health and spread the meaning of homelessness and it's implications to the wider community. Theatre and mental health The Giggle Factory: utilising the power of theatre to help people who suffer from mental health problems....
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Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
My experience of being a South Asian LGBTQI+ ally
Education & Development

My experience of being a South Asian LGBTQI+ ally

...research to improve your understanding. Challenging your own unconscious bias can help you to challenge any assumptions to stereotypes you may have made without being aware. Speaking up when you hear family, friends or co-workers telling jokes or comments, reminding them that as an ally you find this offensive. Offer to help and support others’ learning if they express...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...Centre for Languages and Cultures, this free short course provides an introduction to Ukrainian languages and culture. This course is for everybody who is interested in finding out about Ukraine and its people and wants to get a first insight into its rich cultural heritage. It is also for learners who interact directly with Ukrainian refugees, for example by hosting...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...centres to house thousands of special computers and data storage devices to store your data. Access to the data is made possible by the internet, which you will look at later in this course. You might think a cloud as an anonymous, unknown location that is shared by many unrelated users. The location is owned, managed and operated by a business, or academic or government...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...research, we project that in November 43 states will use voting machines that are at least a decade old. [ Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment] Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment That’s a problem for three big reasons. Breakdowns lead to lines, and lost votes First, while no one...
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Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...research which examines more than 130 Congressional corruption cases over 35 years, Marko Klasnja finds that part of the answer is voters’ lack of attention. Whereas voters with high levels of political awareness penalize corrupt politicians compared to clean ones, voters with lower levels of political awareness do not...[The US capitol building shrouded in fog, as if...
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Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...research at Aberdeen University Research Archive: Food Control - Consumer acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in the poultry food chain Is the European objection to chlorine-washed chicken a new thing? Not at all - in fact, the question of what happens to chickens has been an issue for the entire life of the single market. In 1998, the University of...
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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...research. It’s concerned with the skills needed to represent real optimization problems as mathematical models, and with techniques used in numerical analysis and operational research for solving these models by computer. Explaining how and when modelling and numerical techniques can be applied, the course covers solutions of non-linear equations; systems of linear and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs