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100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson. Check out their incredible story below then dig deeper into our resources on suffragettes, women's history and feminism. Endell Street: A Suffragette Story Transcript...
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Try distance learning for FREE with the OU
Education & Development

Try distance learning for FREE with the OU

...resource that’s open to everyone. It’s a great way to see if distance learning is right for you and prepare you for university...There are over 1,000 courses to choose from with no start-dates, so you can begin right away or at a time that suits you. Some courses are based on The Open University degree materials and others are made specifically for OpenLearn, but all...
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Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?
Education & Development

Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?

...resources may prolong the negative stereotypes associated with menstruation. And for many girls, this lack of support in the classroom can lead to feelings of shame around the whole subject. Some girls are even missing school because they cannot afford sanitary products. This clearly then goes way beyond playground embarrassment or bullying – it is a far wider political...
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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...human-like translations, it doesn’t understand emotions, metaphors, or context, often resulting in errors and biases. Machine translation might seem easy and straightforward, but it has limitations. Understanding its history helps us make more informed choices. Machines calculate and match patterns, but do not understand or think. This is something that you must do....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...resources. The next section of this course will explain a bit more about these proposals for ensuring that English children learn to be: open-minded, critical participants of public discourse, who make academically informed judgements about important matters of religion and belief which shape the global landscape. (NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today, n.d.) How can we ensure the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...human nose but they are present in much of the Earth and its atmosphere, forests, oceans and cities (Figure 2). VOCs can be produced by industrial processes and from all life found on Earth (for example humans, livestock, microbes) through their metabolic processes. The VOCs cycle around Earth’s ecosystems and are lost, gained, used and released through myriad natural...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...human language. Early, positive results led to high expectations that truly intelligent computers built around multiple perceptrons were close at hand. An excited New York Times wrote: The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. Later perceptrons...
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Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...resources Acknowledgements Thank you to everyone who participated in the interviews: Andrea, Andrew, Carinder, Cathy, Chewy, Dan, Jean, Jo, Josh, Kathryn, Kevin, Lorrain, Marie, Mark, Neil, Robert, Tim, Tracey and Vicky. Also, thank you to the following groups: Ace Anglia EMH Group See Ability Sheffield Voices Surrey Choices Your Voice Advocacy. Resources Toolkits for...
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