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Global Handwashing Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Global Handwashing Day

...currently facing those who promote handwashing. Read more about how The Open University has worked in partnership with World Vision Ethiopia and UNICEF to develop learning resources that help WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) practitioners influence behaviors like handwashing and improve hygiene and sanitation. OpenWASH OpenWash free course on OpenLearn Works...
How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...resource complements the Becoming an ethical researcher OpenLearn course and connects with The Open University website Our voices: research ‘about’, ‘with’ and ‘by’ children and young people. @@PLUGINFILE@@/FINAL%20-7db.mp4 Transcript IMAGE ATTRIBUTION Special thanks to Flat Icon for the following: Happy-face: Icon created by th studio Thumbs-up-hand: icon...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...human beings that make them up? Nigel: But there are all kinds of groups of people who philosophers don’t get excited about. A queue waiting to get a coffee in Starbucks – who cares about that? Why should they be so focused on corporations? Alex: I don’t think they should just be focused on corporations. I think they should be focused on groups which are organized...
How much electronic waste do we generate as a species?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much electronic waste do we generate as a species?

...Humans generated a staggering 44.7 million metric tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2016 — the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers, and five per cent more than the electrical and electronic goods discarded just two years earlier, says a new study. The trend is set to continue, with volumes of e-waste expected to rise to 52.2 million metric tonnes by 2021. A report...
David Bowie faces the last taboo
History & The Arts

David Bowie faces the last taboo

...human. Questions of identity; politics; love; gender; sexuality; family. More recently his works touched upon questions of ageing, grief and loss. Within a week of my mum’s death in January 2013, Bowie released his haunting single ‘Where are we now?’. It captured perfectly the sense of complete desolation that accompanies the passing of a loved one; but also those...
Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini
Science, Maths & Technology

Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini

...humanity. Dr Steve Blake looks at the structures of the island's volcanic rocks. Santorini's Volcanic History Steve Blake pieces together the volcanic history on the island by closely examining two different kinds of rock. Volcanic Succesions in Santorini Dr Richard Thorpe visits Oia on the North island of Santorini to look at Red Scoria, lava and Stratified pumice. Where...
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...Humanities...David Hume: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the debates in the late Enlightenment concerning suicide, immortality, the nature of evidence, the existence of God and related topics understand some characteristic shifts and continuities in the move from Enlightenment ideals towards Romantic ones feel confident...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...human activity whereby ecosystems accumulate minerals. This free course, Eutrophication, explains how this process occurs, what its effects on different types of habitat are, and how it might be managed...Managing eutrophication is a key element in maintaining the earths biodiversity. Eutrophication is a process mostly associated with human activity whereby ecosystems...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs