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Investigating ageing
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating ageing

...studied to assess age and ageing. Ageing at the genetic level How the study of nematode worms and mice might be used as a model for lengthening human life. Ageing at the cellular level Why do cells die? Can we stop them, and should we? Ageing at the physiological level Pam and Emma undergo more tests to see how they compare in tests of strength, agility and 'wobbliness'....
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However, these challenges also...
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The Open University and Children in Scotland learning portal
Education & Development

The Open University and Children in Scotland learning portal

...skills to advance in their careers. The OU offers fully-funded places on these courses multiple times a year. Part-time fee grant - this funding is available for those looking to study an OU module or qualification. It is available to those living in Scotland and having a personal income of £25,000 a year or less. It fully covers the cost of studying either a...
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Looking globally: the future of education
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...skills that may be distinctly different to those we can easily imagine today. Education will have to enable young people to be flexible, to quickly and efficiently learn what they need to know, to dismiss fake facts, to think critically and to offer creative solutions for problems that no-one has yet considered. Is education fit for the future in your context? What do you...
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...skills. The responsibilities behind the degrees In a typical education scenario, students learn through a number of pedagogical activities and are assessed and receive feedback from teachers. Learning occurs either face-to-face, online, or a mixture of the two, all under the control of an educational institution providing quality, credibility, governance, and...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...studies show about the relationships between technology and children. This evidence can help us reflect on our perceptions of how digital technologies influence children’s development and inform as to how best to support children when interacting with them. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E232 Exploring childhood and youth. It...
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CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help

...studies had a very small sample size. Some lacked a control group. In others, accuracy was not measured. This means that the researchers could not know for certain if participants would have performed differently if no contextual information had been available to them. So it has been difficult to generalise about the effects of contextual bias on forensic examiners’...
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...Study Confirms Gender Stereotypes”, “Why Men Are Better at Map Reading”, “Women Wired to Multitask”, “Women Crap at Parking” – such were the headlines that hailed the publication of a recent neuroscience study, which claimed to reveal marked differences between the brains of men and women. This study, published in late 2013 in the journal Proceedings of...
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