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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...mathematics or philosophy, you need to have figured it out for yourself – in particular, you need to understand not only that it is true, but also why it is true. According to Socrates, this feature of knowledge explains why it is more stable than true opinion. The thought seems to be this: suppose that someone tells you that a particular philosophical argument is a...
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Article 10 mins
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...mathematics to students. Humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity protection, which means that we must remain skeptical and security-minded whenever we’re online. Courses in the humanities, history and rhetoric assist in developing the critical thinking skills and inquisitive minds needed in the modern workforce and nicely complement any necessary technical skills....
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Article 5 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such as typing and accounting, as these were the types of jobs most women could expect to obtain...
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Article 10 mins
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...mathematics testing: an exploratory study’, International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 511–33. Geographical Association (2014a) An Assessment and Progression Framework for Geography [online]. Available from http://www.geography.org.uk/ news/ 2014nationalcurriculum/ assessment/ (Accessed 25 February 2016). Geographical Association...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...mathematical terms, how such modelling is being done, and its application to the situation in India. Click here. • To watch a thorough discussion and Q&A session on COVID-19 with experts from the OU STEM faculty, click here. • If you are interested in the numbers around COVID-19, such as the meaning for the various terms, the modelling that's being used to obtain...
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Article 10 mins
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, which inform public health decisions to avoid overwhelming health care provision. Mathematical modelling is beyond the scope of this article, but the interested reader are referred to an informal video that explains a ‘SIR model’ (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered/Removed) of disease transmission that may apply to...
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Article 20 mins
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...mathematical algorithm and some secret information (the encryption key). The process of decryption undoes this transformation using a mathematical algorithm, in conjunction with some secret value (the decryption key) that reverses the effects of the encryption algorithm. An encryption algorithm and all its possible keys, plaintexts and ciphertexts is known as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...mathematical knowledge of vectors. This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM381 Electromagnetism...This free course explores Coulomb’s law, the physical law that governs the force between electric charges, and shows how it can be verified experimentally. As a prerequisite you will need some mathematical knowledge of vectors. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs