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AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...style of the training data yet it is entirely original. Now, why is this important? Imagine a world where every creative thought could be explored, where each ‘what if’ is answered with numerous possibilities, and your repetitive tasks are handled by an AI tool. Generative AI can make this a reality. As we embrace this new era of AI, we find ourselves not limited by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...et des metiers (Encyclopédia, or an Analytical Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades), published in Paris between 1751 and 1772 in 28 volumes and accompanied by 11 volumes of illustrative plates. (Further supplementary volumes were published almost up to the French Revolution in 1789.) The main editor of the work was Denis Diderot (1713–84, pronounced...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...et al., (2014) have shown readers benefit from being invited to participate in richly reciprocal and interactive reading communities, communities which include their teachers as readers. One of the challenges however, as our book highlights, is teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature. When 22% of 1200 primary phase teachers cannot or do not name a single...
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Article 10 mins
How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...et al 2022. Recognising that sewage sludge application introduces microplastics into soil is crucial when addressing microplastic pollution. To mitigate the potential risks associated with microplastics from sewage sludge we need to focus on advanced treatment processes, explore alternative waste management options, and enact appropriate regulations. This will result in...
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Article 10 mins
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...et al., 2021), led by Exeter University and involving myself and other Open University academics, suggests that this climate policy ‘game’ is beginning to look outdated. OK, so what’s changed? We identified three factors: Our understanding of the economic impacts of climate policy is developing. The traditional modelling approach, still widely used, assumes an...
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Article 10 mins
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...et al., 2020). [A male nurse at work] Unless a person has experienced nursing care first-hand (from an insider perspective), they are unlikely to know and properly understand the role and responsibilities and will draw from their (inaccurate) schema (from an outsider perspective). This means that they use false stereotypes to inform perceptions and decision-making. This...
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Article 5 mins
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...profiles. The light is spread out over a number of pixels, despite the true angular size of the star being smaller than one image pixel. The way that light from a star is distributed across multiple pixels by a particular telescope is known as the telescope’s point-spread function (PSF). [Described image] Figure 4 The radial surface brightness profiles of (a) a star...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...style of the text and what sort of evidence is used to support any claims...How to be a critical reader: 1.4.1 Fact or opinion? (1) - Fact or opinion? (a) ‘Water boils at 100 degrees centigrade’; (b) ‘Overweight people are lazy’. Some of the texts you read at university will be factual, others will be more opinion-based and some will be a mixture of facts and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs