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Sara Kay Aloe
Education & Development

Sara Kay Aloe

...main source of entertainment: ‘I just really enjoy learning new things, and it turns out that personal development can also be a hobby.’ Working in IT recruitment, the pandemic had a big impact and Sara was unfortunate enough to lose her job, ‘…but OpenLearn helped me get through those awful lockdowns by keeping me busy,’ she told us. She moved onto courses in subjects as diverse as history, languages, finance, IT and ......
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Article 5 mins
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...out together. Fun makes learning memorable. Start with what your child knows and have a clear sense of what they could achieve. Have high (but not too high) expectations. Find a way to make what you are learning about relevant and meaningful to your child Keep listening and be willing to change what you are doing. You will have a lot to learn too. Be happy if something...
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Article 15 mins
Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)
Education & Development

Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)

...out problems at work, but sometimes it does fall to us. How can we do it in a constructive way that gets the core message across and doesn’t affect our professional self-image? And what exactly counts as a problem, anyway? What makes something a problem? De Felice and Garretson (2021) define a workplace problem as ‘a state of affairs that affects one or more people...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...out in an interview situation? Analyses of interview data tend to treat talk as an original, individual, and personal output, discounting how much of it is borrowed and rehearsed (Taylor 2012), and also how it is shaped by social norms. In today's social media culture, people might seem less inhibited, more ready to reveal personal information, yet certain barriers remain...
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Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...out if it was easy to spot the difference between the work generated by a human - Mike Richards of the OU’s computing department - and that from a machine. Below are both articles. Read them and then return to our social media channels to tell us which you believe is human-written. Article A, or Article B? Good luck! Article A - The risks versus the rewards of using AI...
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Article 5 mins
Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife
Health, Sports & Psychology

Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife

...the search for eternal life, only imagining how entirely different that might turn out to be. References Stokes, D (1980). Voices in My Ear: Autobiography of a Medium. Boston: Little Brown. Stoker, Bram (2007). Dracula: A Centennial Edition. New York: Signet Classics. Warner, M (1998). No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock. London: Chatto and Windus....
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Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity
Nature & Environment

Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity

...consequently do not have to obtain permission from indigenous villages before carrying out operations on village land. This ruling sets a negative precedent for the indigenous peoples of Guyana, who have been seeking to have their lands recognised and respected for decades. It also exposes the lack of adequate protections for indigenous lands in Guyana, a situation which will only be exacerbated as pressures from mining, ......
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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...out about health, diet and environmental issues) work (for example, in roles in education, medicine or in industry) hobbies (finding out about weather for holiday plans, the soil if you are a keen gardener, habitats and migration if you are a birdwatcher). Some people associate science with high-level specialists and feel that science does not actively influence their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs