OpenLearn newsletter November 2023 📰


🔽 Welcome to November's spooktacular update 🔽

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

How much do you know about artificial intelligence (AI)? Is it capable of being creative? This animation and associated article look at the meaning of 'creativity' and whether machines can carry out what we deem to be 'creative' tasks.

Also: try our interactive 'Artificial Intelligence - Chatting With Bots' 🤖

🆕 New Courses To Explore In November 🆕

NEW BADGED COURSE: Introduction to Black Leadership

Guided by the Five Ps model of leadership (person, process, position, product and purpose), you will learn about the challenges and possibilities of Black leadership.

Earn yourself a digital badge and develop skills in communication, critical analysis and teamwork - the perfect addition to OpenLearn to round off Black History Month.

Visit the Black History Month Collection

Investigating A Murder With Forensic Psychology 🔍

Ever wondered about the role that psychology might play in police investigations? Would you like to investigate a fictional criminal case, working alongside a team of detectives?

In this four-week course you’ll learn about detecting deception, how to establish rapport, the impact of cognitive bias, and how to develop and assess an interview plan.

More fun for budding detectives...

Plus THREE more new courses to explore:

Happy Halloween From OoooopenLearn 👻

As another Halloween creeps up on us, why not dig deeper into our fang-tastic educational resources on all things to do with All Hallows' Eve? Delve into our spook-tacular articles, FREE courses, podcasts and more...

👻🎃🧟‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️

From the origins of Halloween, to zombie psychology and the science of fear... it's all here!

The Unsung Women of The Blues

Blues is a musical genre often associated with male pioneers. However, women were also a huge part of this development. This article shines a light on three women who helped shape the blues: Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.

The Menopause Transition

Menopause marks the end of menstruation but is often better thought of as a process rather than a one-off event. As someone who has experienced menopause, Catherine Pestano shares her insight about tuning into creativity to mark World Menopause Day.

In The News 📰

It's not just Halloween coming up that we can help you celebrate... as these links show, OpenLearn has content for pretty much everything!

November is National Novel Writing Month... our collection of content might just help you get that first novel underway! ✍️
It's Bonfire Night next weekend of course, but have you ever wondered about the science behind fireworks? 🎇
1 November is World Vegan Day. More and more of us are becoming vegan, as this interactive explains... 🥕
Elon Musk has owned Twitter (or X) for a year. Check out our content on social media, fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely. 💬
Big Brother returned to our screens this month. We don't have any content on that, but we do on the 'original Big Brother'... a free course on George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. 👀

Plus, click here to discover what's trending on OpenLearn right now

NEW: Resources For Educators

Design your own continuing professional development (CPD) with these free resources from The Open University, created for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff working across the UK.

All content in the hub has been selected by academics across The OU specifically for those working in the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including home education, special schools & pupil referral units.

Check out the Hub here

Managing A Child's Pain - 👀 Watch & Enrol 🖱️

How can we best support a child in hospital experiencing pain? This short video is part of a free course on OpenLearn that promotes effective management of childhood pain.

Watch the animation and then follow the links from YouTube back to OpenLearn to enrol on the course.

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