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Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...resources. The 13 video tracks on this album explain the ways in which conservationists are working to preserve the gorillas' natural habitat and develop quality of life for the locals. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: Journeys Through a Changing World... Environment: journeys through a changing world A short introduction to this album Conservation...
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Audio 1 hr 1 min
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...human intelligence. However, even the best modern AI is nothing like the “general” intelligence that humans possess. It is more like a hugely complicated descendent of those early automatons. So How Does Modern AI Work? Modern AI systems mimic the connectivity of the human brain. They combine the results of millions of simple computations in a specific way to react...
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Video 10 mins
Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Katie Donington]My grandmother was a great lover of history; she wanted to study it at university, but she became profoundly deaf when she was a teenager and then the Second World War intervened. She would tell me stories about Tudors and Stuarts, and she also visited local schools to...
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Article 5 mins
World Archaeology
History & The Arts

World Archaeology

...human race. This album provides an introduction to archaeology and its methodologies for excavation of sites that can be more than 12000 years old. Like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle but without a picture guide, archaeologists can establish how cities and civilisations developed, why humans started farming, and how empires formed and collapsed. This material forms part...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...human advancement has been spearheaded by white male western scientists. The Eurocentric assumption must be challenged. Audio 1 Having considered why the global dimension in science is so important, I shall now look at how to incorporate it in science lessons. Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics, raises some challenging questions for science...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...human body and resource-rich internal environment makes the human body optimal for the growth and maintenance of the body’s own cells. However, it also means that this is an ideal environment for the growth and survival of some microorganisms. The vast majority of microorganisms that humans encounter on a daily basis are harmless. However, some microorganisms can invade...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...human’ tasks, we are all constantly grappling with the question: ‘what makes a human, human’? The Roman poet Ovid also asked this question – it was one of many big questions about the world that he asked which we are still struggling with today. Others, like ‘how did the world begin?’ or ‘should we eat animals?’ are also discussed in this ancient poet’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...human activity? From the diverse rainforests of the tropics to the smallest microbial communities, ecosystems support life on Earth. This album reveals the ecological relationships that create these living systems of energy transfer and explores some of the key processes that occur. It goes on to show how these complex systems can be affected by external influences and...
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Audio 18 mins