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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...economic development and a developed country who is responsible in terms of cumulative carbon emission for more than a quarter of the total emissions, making a statement collectively how to confront climate change, G7 has issued a statement, many countries have now filed their commitments. And while we know that the numbers that are on the table now are not sufficient to...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...economically and socially beneficial. We need to get over our affliction with monolingualism.” The immersion approach is being trialled in the UK now, too. At Bohunt secondary school in Liphook, Hampshire, head teacher Neil Strowger has introduced Chinese-language immersion for a few lessons. I sit in on an art class with 12-year-olds being taught by two teachers: one...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...economic and social spheres. Specifically, Catholics demanded police reform and a fairer voting system to end Unionist domination of the political system in Northern Ireland, where Unionist Party control of the parliament at Stormont from 1922 to 1972 was matched by Unionist control of 85 per cent of local councils (Tonge, 2001, p. 634). Political discrimination was...
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Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...Economic Development, 26(3), pp. 537–63. Ali, K. (2016) Sexual Ethics and Islam Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence, One World, Chapter 5. Arnaldez, R. (2012) ‘Ibn Ḥazm’, Encyclopaedia of Islam, second edn, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Religion in Public Life (2022) ‘Core...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...economic, political and ethical changes brought about by computing and information technology (IT) will affect every one of us. In this course we talk about digital technologies in relation to computing and IT. A fundamental idea is that a digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers. Computers use digital technologies so, in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...economic shift was required and approached Boeing to build an aircraft nearly twice the size of anything then available. With the technology available at the time engineers were also unable to look at double deck aircraft and so to create the necessary size widening the aircraft became the only choice. This in 1965, under the direction of Joe Sutter, the design of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...economic developments and power relations. After all, a person had to be very rich to acquire an estate of land and only the well-off had the money and time to purchase and read travel literature. These products became primary source evidence for historians but also established a tradition of working on and in a landscape, observing and collecting material. Hoskins’...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...economic policies of austerity. (a) group identification (b) group-based injustice (c) group efficacy a. (a) group identification b. (b) group-based injustice c. (c) group efficacy The correct answer is c. Select the answer for Question 1f here I feel connected to other students. (a) group identification (b) group-based injustice (c) group efficacy a. (a) group...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs