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The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...account the combined effects of the albedo and specific heat capacity, even two adjacent areas, such as a beach and the sea lapping on it, will heat up by different amounts on a sunny day. If you compare a tropical sea with the high albedo icy pictures shown in Figure 1, you can start to get an understanding of the temperature records shown in Figure 2. There is one more...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...account for 38.0% of the total expenditure. The area of this slice is 38/100 of the total area. Pie charts can be constructed by dividing a circle into equal slices and then shading in the appropriate fractions. For example, the circle below is divided into 10 equal slices. The shaded area is or 30% of the total. Often, pie charts do not have the actual percentages or...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...account other values. When analysing your data, you need to be aware of the values influencing your recommendations and articulate them in your report. The final section will look at how you write the final report...Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work: 6 Writing the report - Following your analysis, you will need to write up your findings and
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...accounting curriculum’, Management Accounting Quarterly, 10(1), pp. 51–58. Care Collective, The (2020) The care manifesto: the politics of interdependence. London: Verso. Casserley, T. and Megginson, D. (2009) Learning from burnout: developing sustainable leaders and avoiding career derailment. Oxford and Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann. Cathcart, E.B.,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...accounts is easily visible, historical posts are not always accessible, not all social media posts are kept by archival institutions, and specialist knowledge is sometimes required to work with such data. Progress and obsolescence [This is a photograph of a Sega MegaDrive.] Figure 5 Sega MegaDrive, a once-popular games console. As new technologies develop, older...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Accounts, with photographs, were later posted across the internet, and this emphasis on display is crucial. Viewers can see for themselves not just how the devices work, but also that, painful though it may be, implantation is more or less bearable. The same techniques were deployed by the Greek physician Galen. When he cut the laryngeal nerve of a squealing pig before an...
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Article 10 mins
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...account for the trustfulness of the young woman on my other hand who wore her gold watch outside her dress, and who turned to the elderly stranger for sympathy in a certain supreme moment? This was when the crowd below crumpled suddenly together like the crushing of paper and the sense of something tragically mysterious in the distance clarified itself as the death of one...
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Article 5 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...account use that. If you don’t yet have one, it’s free and very straightforward to set up. Your task is to compose a tweet (of no more than 280 characters) in which you write about what you are looking forward to as a distance learner. Tweet your message to @OpenLearn, using this hashtag: #ready4distancelearning. Congratulations – you have now taken your first step...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs