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Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...education to support behavioural changes that enable people to protect themselves, their children or other community members from infection; promote resistance to infection in the human host; isolate a source of infection to prevent it from being passed on; tackle an environmental source of infection consider a range of public health strategies, including unfamiliar...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...educational initiative associated with The Reading Agency, which works with public libraries and schools to run children's reading groups. Scholastic has information and various links related to setting up and joining book clubs. Your pupils could get involved with the CBBC Book Club and talk about the books they like on this website. Best of all, you could start your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been almost a billion pounds of funding cuts to youth services, some areas in England and Wales now have no funding (YMCA, 2020). Youth transitions are longer, less stable –...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?
Nature & Environment

How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?

...more seeds in arid lands. “We would [also] like people to see the value of this simple technology as a contributing factor in combating and adapting to effects of climate change, as this is the cheapest way to encourage tree planting, especially in arid and semi-arid areas,” adds Kinyanjui. This article was originally published on SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...technology. In A Spiritual Revolution?: Wicca and religious change in the 1960s, you’ll consider whether religious change in the Sixties can be considered as a spiritual revolution. You’ll explore how traditional religion was challenged, and how new religions such as Wicca (a form of modern Paganism) emerged from an age where sexual norms, gender roles and traditional...
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Article 10 mins
Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...Hestia Project The Hestia project brings this enquiry into the 21st century medium of digital technologies. Browse the project team’s objectives and watch a short video clip from the academic lead, Dr. Elton Barker, before embarking on your own exploration and enquiry via our OpenLearn Collection, the Hestia map and selected links to external sources on the Internet....
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Activity 5 mins
The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...technology and systems in action. India’s busiest city, Mumbai, is right at the heart of the world’s busiest railway. Mumbai is situated on a peninsula of land on the west coast of India, surrounded by the Indian Ocean. Its most important transport hub, the historic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, opened in 1887 when India was still part of the British Empire. The...
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Article 5 mins
How does OpenLearn deal with older content?
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?

...technology to access that has become difficult for an average user to acquire (e.g. a piece of content requires certain software to be able to enjoy). Our preference is to update content rather than remove a piece entirely. Reasons for updating content may include: The article, interactive or course was correct at the time, but subsequent research or events have made...
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Article 5 mins