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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...analysis are framed often affects the final decision. The same data can lead to very different conclusions if decision makers have different assumptions about the way the world works...Making decisions: 7.3 What is an effective decision? - To improve decision making it is first important to have a clear idea of how we should judge an effective decision. While in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...analysis of a single learning activity to a wider view of you as a learner. Two main things will probably affect your approach to learning: your motivation (the reasons why you are engaged in a particular course of study) your previous history as a learner, both in a formal setting (such as at school or on another course) and informally, through unstructured or unexpected...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...analysis. Our data source decides whether it's reliable data. We don't. Otherwise, that would introduce bias. What about other countries? There are 200 studies of health in relation to income inequality in the academic peer-reviewed journals - this isn't confined to these countries here - providing a very simple demonstration of the same countries, the same measure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Medical uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical uses of genetic testing

...data of many people can also be analysed simultaneously on a large scale. This allows scientists to learn more about how our genetics affects our health, and paves the way for groundbreaking discoveries in healthcare which change the way we diagnose and treat diseases. Visit our YouTube playlist to watch more videos from the GRACE project, or visit our website to know...
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Video 8 mins
Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research

...data comes from South Asians. Their representation, therefore, needs to increase by four times to accurately represent the number of South Asians in the UK. Underrepresentation can be seen across all areas of genetics research and has significant consequences for the health and well-being of these communities. For example, oximeters used widely during the COVID-19...
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Video 3 mins
Moons of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of the Solar System

...data from the mission and its Cassini mother craft has revealed it to be a fascinating world of methane lakes, rainstorms and cryo-volcanoes. This film brings us the latest news from the orangey world, including audacious plans for a return splashdown. Archive footage appears courtesy of Footagevault. The Moon When Apollo 17 lifted off from the lunar surface in 1972, it...
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Video 31 mins
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...data as part of fundraising bits. They might be doing needs analysis, or they might be trying to think about who else is operating in an area. And our data will help them understand how many other organisations are doing that. I’d really like people to be able to use our data to understand their organisation by benchmarking themselves against it. And we are trying to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...data exclude links coming from within an institution’s logged-in learning environment because this cannot be tracked, hence this number is likely to be larger.) A month after being made live, the English language OER collection of resources became OpenLearn’s seventh most popular page on its introduction with over 36,000 views. The dominance of OER in English Because...
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Article 10 mins