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Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...eutrophication is a key element in maintaining the earths biodiversity. Eutrophication is a process mostly associated with 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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey68....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...managed by perhaps ten civil servants in the Treasury, that's all you need. Instead we have a large department of climate change that employs many, many civil servants, all of whom are making up silly rules. And I would simply abolish that whole department and replace them with a working group of ten civil servants or so in the Treasury and that's all we need. RH: OK. So...
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Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...Management Journal, 21 (5), pp. 565–577. Griffin, L. and Roy, J. (2019) ‘A great resource that should be utilised more, but also a place of anxiety: student perspectives on using an online discussion forum’. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. doi: 10.1080/02680513.2019.1644159. Available at: www.tandfonline.com/ doi/ full/ 10.1080/...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...manage them on their journey from sender to receiver. It is often acceptable to round numbers up or down to make calculations simpler. The result won't be completely precise, but it will probably be close enough for many purposes. The box below takes the idea further and explains the principles. Rounding numbers The more digits there are in a number, the less contribution...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...managed. The special room set aside for the purpose, sometimes called a ‘lecture room’, had tiered seats rising above a central seat placed at the front of the room for the reader. The prisoners were called by a series of bells, the first to prepare and the second to file in. The prisoner’s voice was deliberately muted: no one was allowed to speak, certainly not...
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Article 15 mins
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...Management, vol. 224, pp. 396–405 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.055. Wise, F., Moncaster, A., Jones, D. and Dewberry, E. (2019) ‘Considering embodied energy and carbon in heritage buildings – a review’, from Policy to Practice, p. 10. Zhang, X. and Wang, F. (2017) ‘Analysis of embodied carbon in the building life cycle considering the temporal...
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Article 10 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Managing my Money for Young Adults, with the wonderful Bobby Seagull from University Challenge. We’ve partnered with some well-known companies to deliver top-notch learning such as CISCO in our Internet of Everything free course and Money Saving Expert in MSE's Academy of Money. In the wake of heightened concerns over black lives, after George Floyd’s murder in May...
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