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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...2: Open education reading Timing: Timing: 2 hours Choose two of the following resources on open education to read or view: Cormier (2013) ‘What do you mean… open?’ CNN-1333 Open Course (2012) ‘The extended argument for openness in education’. Weller (2014) ‘What sort of open?’, Chapter 2 of The Battle for Open. Bates (2015) ‘What do we mean by "open" in...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...2 Reflections on your working life - Making the transition back to work after a career break or period of unemployment can be a daunting prospect. Often, it can be quite hard to know where to begin. Week by week, this course will help you to reflect on what you have done before and identify where you want to go next. This will enable you to present yourself to potential...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...lack of rainfall is because they are a long distance from the sea. The Sahara (Figure 2) and Arabian deserts are arid because of persistent large high-pressure masses of dry air that prevent penetration of rain-bearing storm systems. A popular concept of deserts is based on the extreme Sahara, where huge areas of sand dunes support little, if any, plant growth. Certain animals such as camels (Camelus spp.; Figure 3), ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...2 Compare your definition with the above definitions. Do they correspond? Risk is equated with hazard in this definition. Do you agree with this? Let us now look at three other definitions of risk given by The Engineering Council (1993, p. 2): Risk is the chance of an adverse event. Risk is the likelihood of a hazard being realised. Risk is the combination of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...2 looks at three views on globalisation and the global environment. Section 3 asks how our decision making can advance sustainability to make our societies more adaptable to environmental change. It looks at the chances of achieving both accountable global governance and grassroots participation. The final brief section is in three parts. It takes the three views outlined...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...2 develops the idea expressed in The Economist extract that falling prices were responsible for the rapid take-up of new products by consumers. This is an example of a widely observed relation between the quantity demanded of a good by consumers and the price of the good: the lower the price, the greater the quantity demanded. However, there are other influences on market...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...2 Listen to the audio recording ‘Introducing the philosophy of religion’. In this recording, I introduce some of the themes of this course. (Note that the recording makes reference to ‘Book 2’, but you can ignore that for the purposes of this activity.) In the middle of what I say, you will hear a number of people whom we stopped in the street to ask what big...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...2) the substitution of inanimate sources of power (such as steam) for animate sources of power (such as horse power); and (3) the substitution of mineral raw materials for vegetable or animal substances, and in general the use of new and more abundant raw materials (Landes, 1972). These changes in technology and equipment occurred simultaneously with changes in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs