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What is OpenLearn Ireland?
OpenLearn Ireland

What is OpenLearn Ireland?

...resources relevant to Ireland and Northern Ireland. The resources within this hub cover a wide range of subject areas, including language, environment, revolution, history, law, literature, politics, social care and social sciences. The collection of FREE courses, academic insights via articles, interactive videos and audio, and broadcast material as a whole demonstrates...
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Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...human rights and the Windrush fight Open University law graduates Anthony Brown and Leonie Shaw-Brown lead a discussion on their inspirational Windrush campaign. [Unknown title] Transcript Experience v qualifications: reflections from an OU graduate and sports coach Allana Francis-Ashmeil is an OU Sports and Fitness student from 2014–2016 who graduated with a BSc (Hons)...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...resources (e.g. plants and animals). Resources can be defined as what the Earth can provide that humans consider economically or otherwise useful. Resources may also include human knowledge and labour. Resources are often classified into renewable and non-renewable resources depending on the timescale that they are renewed or ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...resource and a public trust whose security and stability are not to be subverted to the service of private special interests. As customers and users, when evaluating new technologies, systems, products and services, we must look beyond the attractive benefits, conveniences or cost savings they might offer. We must assess their potential risks, vulnerabilities, problems....
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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...resources. It is not possible to avoid such bias – it’s a human trait – but it doesn’t mean that resources produced by organisations with a vested interest or a particular view should be avoided. It is important, however, that this bias is considered and brought to students’ attention. Ideally, students should be provided with material that presents the other...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...Human Genome explores the basics of the science at the heart of genetics...[Centrifuge] The 21st century began with the completion of the first draft of the complete sequence of the human genome. Coupled with new techniques for intervening in genetic disorders such as mass genetic screening, gene therapy and genetic manipulation these are among the most fraught areas of...
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Article 10 mins
Co-design approaches
Science, Maths & Technology

Co-design approaches

...resources that a co-design team has and can use as a basis for further development of a design project. Asset mapping tool Connecting challenges, assets and opportunities This short animation introduces a technique for generating ideas and opportunities for design by unearthing and combining individual and collective challenges and assets. Transcript Cross-pollination...
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice
History & The Arts

Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice

...human beings live in anguish. Not because life is terrible. But rather because, we’re ‘condemned to be free’. We're ‘thrown’ into existence, become aware of ourselves, and have to make choices. Even deciding not to choose is a choice. According to Sartre, every choice reveals what we think a human being should be. Find out more about the individual and...
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