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A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...work as an apprentice pipe organ builder. I received occasional cassette tapes from the Cathedral as my step-mother and others continued the tape ministry after my father’s sudden death in July 1988 (+Desmond sent flowers to us after my father died – the same experience retired Bishop of Natal Michael Nuttal has just talked about in the sermon at +Desmond’s...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...work directly with AI when, as Couzens (n.d.) states, they predominantly rely on algorithms, indicating that the role AI plays in sports is not always clear. So, what do we mean when we talk about AI in sports and what can it do? [Wooden blocks with symbol of digital disruption concept on blue background] ‘A branch of computer science that aims to create machines and...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...work they really like and learn some of it and actually walk around the house, or if you feel very bold, at the bus stop, and speak that stuff aloud and see how it feels. It's not something that you can analyse intellectually, but it's a very physical way of engaging with play writing. I would say the best thing to do is not to even worry about the exposition. Certainly...
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Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...work out which mammals are most closely related to each other appreciate the importance of bringing together evidence from different sources...School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals: 1 Natural groups - Darwin made extensive observations on a great many creatures, including mammals, and noticed that species fell into natural groups, e.g. lions, tigers and leopards...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Life in the trees: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the common features shown by tree-dwelling mammals from different groups show an awareness of the difficulties of classifying primates,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...work: surveillance, monitoring and reporting of disease outbreaks and analysis of epidemiological data to shed light on the underlying causes, and inform actions to bring outbreaks under control direct intervention to prevent infection, e.g. through vaccination, reducing environmental sources of pathogens, or isolation and treatment of infected individuals education to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. Any large-scale human...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern European countries in 2004 led to a rise in economic migration within Europe. Many places in Scotland now have well-established and dynamic Eastern European — in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs