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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...physics. So I think that would help. I think also just being really open and transparent and saying, ‘Well look, we listened to this criticism. We have these Lukewarmer scientists coming to our conferences, taking part in the vigorous, robust debates that conferences that we have, publishing the literature, and we listen to these criticisms and we criticise their...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...physical setting, the region and above all the growing children working together to create a creative whole.’ You can read more of Gardner's views in The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves, Howard Gardner, 2000. Within creative communities, technologies are also usually integral to daily activity. Below is...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...physical database design. However, this physical stage is mainly concerned with producing a revised logical schema – that is, specifying SQL tables – so this terminology can be confusing. The tables of a logical schema may differ from the relational representation of the conceptual data model because of concerns with efficiency. To make design decisions that address...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 345–359. Johns, D. P. and Johns, J. S. (2000) ‘SURVEILLANCE, SUBJECTIVISM AND TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: An Analysis of the Discursive Practice of High-Performance Sport’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 219-234. Jones, R.L. (2009) ‘Coaching as caring (‘The smiling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...physically in the same space. A speech, for example, could only be heard by those who were able to congregate within earshot of it. For information to be passed from generation to generation it had to be committed to memory and recited over and again down through the years. [Described image] Figure 3 The Lascaux Caves paintings in south west France are some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the physiological factors that underpin endurance and assess how endurance can be developed relative to performance in a range of sports...In this free course you will explore an important aspect of strength and conditioning which refers to the physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...physical keyboard, there are three ways to produce these characters: Press Ctrl and an accent symbol, then the letter; the accent symbol is ‘ (apostrophe) : (colon) or ~ (tilde). This works in Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Word) on recent computers, but it may not work on older computers or with other applications. You also cannot produce ¿ or ¡ this way. Hold...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs