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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...out there,’ but not necessarily in the daily flow of design work. Then something shifted (Zhang, 2023). When ChatGPT 3.5 arrived in late 2022, suddenly everyone was talking about AI. Only a few months later, an open letter from the Future of Life Institute (2023) called for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT‑4. They argued...
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...worked on the radio and, I suppose, reasonably successfully (I’d worked with Chris Evans for six years)... but I felt towards the end of it – and I'm sure that getting up at 3:45 every morning wasn’t helping my mental state at all – I felt that towards the end of it that I was getting tired and that the challenges of broadcasting were not quite as great as they...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...work, the enduring notion of 'genius' and the artist as a source of meaning...Individual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of...
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...work out the sum of each row without adding up the individual numbers. If you can spot a pattern and then describe what happens in general, this can lead to a rule or formula. Provided you can prove that this rule will always work, it can then be used elsewhere. For example, if you can work out the general process for calculating a quarterly electricity bill and then give...
Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...works. From the urban unrest in the UK after the killing of Mark Duggan, through to protest movements such as the Occupy movement in New York and London and many more cities - the events of 2011 caused people to reflect and ask questions injustices in the world. To use Paul Mason’s expression of the book of the same name published in 2012 one of the big questions was...
Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...work for the castaways to talk about their life and work. To mark the 75th birthday, we've chosen half a dozen episodes - all available to listen to now - with some of the people whose thoughts and work have shaped the world we live in. Denys Lasdun [Royal National Theatre] Royal National Theatre Denys Lasdun was a leading architect, one of the foremost Brutalist...
The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

The value and progress of jury research in Scotland

...work in the same way as a jury of 12? Even where researchers have asked questions about jury size they are ones which barely arise in the Scottish context. Many US researchers have examined, for example, whether a jury smaller than 12 deliberates as effectively as one of 12 – a seam of research prompted by court decisions on the constitutionality of a smaller jury. But...
London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago
Society, Politics & Law

London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

...working-class residents by Tory/Lib Dem coaliton policy. Local tenants' organisations and protest groups have also been formed to co-ordinate discontent. Meanwhile, Corbyn’s Labour is proposing the biggest social-housing programme since the 1970s. This is all exactly 100 years after the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915, another period that lacked affordable and decent...