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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...communication technologies and the development of extensive transport networks for goods and people. The increasing movement of peoples between different states to find work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...communities, to inadequate hygiene in the high-tech environments of modern hospitals (Figure 4). The impact of infectious diseases is therefore unequally distributed around the world, not only between countries, but also between individuals and groups within the same population. Figure 4 Infectious diseases are a threat everywhere: (a) A shanty settlement without piped...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...Community of the 1980s. This powerful vision of a modern, autonomous and more intensively governed Western Europe was formally drawn up in the Maastricht Treaty of 1991 (signed in 1992). Ambitious plans for further integration were adopted, and far-reaching proposals endorsed to expand the association beyond the 334 million people it currently embraced. At the same time,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai

...her from influencing policy related to women at home. Kollontai saw marriage and the traditional family as legacies of the past. She believed that, under communism, these would give way to stronger ties between the individual and wider society. Alexandra Kollontai died in Moscow in 1952, less than a month away from her 80th birthday. Learn about Marxism and history...
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Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...community gardens in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Wendy was introduced to systems behaviour in 1984, through the OU: “After that, I couldn’t stop seeing systems everywhere. It became so much a part of me that I even married another systems thinker, of the critical sort just like me [Gerald Midgley]. We worked on a lot of systems projects together starting with a...
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Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
Science, Maths & Technology

Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...communication aspects on the population spread of COVID-19, in particular, the spread of misinformation around COVID-19 among the public. Dr. Helen Wimalarathna - a lecturer in health sciences, who works as an infectious disease epidemiologist, and is currently busy with public engagement on the understanding of scientific facts and avoiding scientific misunderstanding...
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Article 10 mins
World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...community. For most, marriages were arranged for them and took place while they were still in their teens, after which wives became the property of their husbands. The primary focus of both elite and peasant married women’s lives revolved round household responsibilities and only in widowhood did they gain legal independence, but this was not necessarily accompanied by...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of advertising
Money & Business

A brief history of advertising

...in capturing the audience's attention. With the fragmentation of the commercial television industry this ‘golden age’ may be over but television is no longer the be all and end all of today’s advertising world. With the opportunities that digital communications offer only beginning to be realised it looks like there will be plenty of changes still to come....
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