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OpenLearn Wales take your learning further
Society, Politics & Law

OpenLearn Wales take your learning further

...resources – watch, listen, debate and discover with our experts Follow The Open University on the BBC – TV and radio resources in our What’s On area. More free courses in Welsh Visit Y Porth - the main platform for delivering and managing Welsh medium provision for the students of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. The educational resources on the Porth were developed...
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Education & Development

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...resources cover a range of topics including ones aimed at specific knowledge of neurodiversity, inclusive practice and children’s development and those targeted at familial learning, topics or specific initiatives relevant to learning within and across formal schooling. The resources are offered at different learning levels, suitable for anyone receiving or facilitating...
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Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...humans have largely designed and manufactured, and is supported by an amazing infrastructure of transport, communication and many other services that we take for granted. Without them, for example, you wouldn't be reading this page or studying this OpenLearn course. The technological basis of our society has undergone major transformations in the last two centuries and...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
What is it like returning to education while working?
Education & Development

What is it like returning to education while working?

...Bangor University...She talks about finding the right balance between work, life and her studies as well as the support she has received along the way. [Ffion shares her experience of studying while working] [Bangor University logo] This resource was provided by Bangor University and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Dr Itiel Dror
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Dr Itiel Dror

...human vulnerabilities in expert decision making. He has worked in a variety of domains, from policing and aviation to medical experts and bankers, showing that cognitive and human factors impact even hard working, dedicated and competent experts. In the forensic science domain, he has focused attention and highlighted how cognitive bias can impact a variety of forensic...
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Video 55 mins
How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...human activities. These systems are part designed and part self-organising, as Anderies and Folke explain: [t]he designed aspects include both ‘hardware’ (paths, roads, canals, boats, tools, buildings) and ‘software’ (norms, rules, networks of shared meanings, ‘culture’) that entangle humans with the biosphere. (Anderies & Folke, 2024, p. 4) Even if we are...
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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...humanity's engagement with machine technologies and at our dream of building machines that share our special human features and powers – particularly our mental abilities. Minds – Here, we'll explore the development of the idea that human thought might be a form of computation, from its origins in the 17th century, through the advent of the digital computer in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...human participants. You will also gain an understanding of the guidelines that govern the use of non-human animals in psychological research in a second online activity, and why psychologists conduct such research. You will have the opportunity of viewing two short films which will introduce you to the research of Alex Thornton who studies meerkats, and of Tetsuro...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs