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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...thinks children can be protected from web porn by building barriers. Good luck with that, says Andrew Smith...[A poster with an anti-pornography message] Won't someone think of the children? The UK government and many other interested international bodies are duly concerned about the proliferation of internet pornography. The latest development under consideration is the...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...thinks that when you decide what to do, you should act on a principle that others could adopt and act on; you should not treat yourself as an exception to the rule. This is Kant’s version of the Golden Rule, “do as you would be done by” that is found in many different religious and ethical systems. Secondly, Kant thinks that you must not use other people in ways to...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care more about local wildlife than the current one. I’m an early years practitioner and woodland enthusiast and I confess that there have been times when putting a plastic...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...think this isn’t possible, or that it seems impractical or unrealistic, and you may be correct in thinking this. On the other hand, you may also think that it’s important to be inclusive of others, and that social spaces should be inclusive in nature. Your thinking in this respect might, for example, encompass learning environments or workspaces, and the individual...
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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...think critically about the norms of ‘good citizenship’ and consider how psychologists themselves can be activists. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD317 Advancing social psychology...Social psychology and politics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand why social psychologists are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...systems which are rule-based, and you have a whole load of rules which can be thought of as ‘if this is true or if this is false, then do this…’. They’re widely used in medical diagnosis and fault finding in complex engineering systems, for example. An alternative approach is to mimic the way that simple animals work, such as insects, so a lot of robots will walk...
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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...system, they’re not going away. I think we are at a different point in education. People have talked about this for over a decade: how what happened to the music industry is going to happen to education, or what happened to the newspaper industry is going to happen to education. The impacts are going to be different but one way or another the internet is going to happen...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...think Brexit would reduce immigration. Just over half of those with less than A-level education thought leaving would bring down immigration. UKIP and sections of the press may have persuaded more of them once the campaign got going. However, according to the survey, those who were more likely to believe leaving the EU would reduce immigration tended to be in a higher...
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