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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...managed to find consensus on the projections of sea level rise. We have close to sea level … RH: Well, it's a very broad consensus that, isn't it? TS: Well, I think that is an achievement that is not to be underestimated. If you remember the situation in 2008 or 2009 when we talked about sea level rise, the published range was huge. And I think we have taken really a...
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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...managed, though, all the while smirking at a member of the local paramilitary who would shout homophobic abuse at us as we walked by. The swagger was gone today. I was grilling him and he didn’t have the answers I wanted. “How can he be dead?” “He killed himself. Apparently he escaped from the hospital. They found him in the grounds.” I don’t remember much of...
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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...management system (LMS) as well as a content management system. Moodle is an open source LMS with over 100 languages that can be deployed through so-called ‘language packs’, to enable the publication of content using a variety of alphabets, including Ukrainian. For this project the Ukrainian language pack was duly deployed to OpenLearn, but due to the high number of...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...manage our lives effectively. For children exposed to an endless stream of new information and novel input, such processes of simplification are necessary in order to make sense of the complex world around them. Activity: What’s in your gender schema? Allow about 20 minutes This activity will help you to explore your own use of gender schemas. Do you make any automatic...
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Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...managing and evaluating the volunteer program, both domestic and international. Activity 8 Case studies Timing: You should allow 15 minutes Have a look at the case studies below. These present professions that you may be interested in yourself. In both cases, the professionals didn't know what they wanted to do while they were still in education. They had an interest in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...management, assessment, becoming digitally ready, and effective engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be a distance learner. After studying this course you should be able to: identify areas of study strengths in preparation for becoming a distance learner explore and reflect on skills...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...managing your money online or over the phone, or using an ATM – the machines involved are connected via a network to a central computer, which has records of your account in an electronic filing system known as a database. Financial services have undergone huge changes in recent years as a result of developments in the digital technologies driving them. The examples...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...managed and operated by a business, or academic or government organisation, or some combination of these, and the hardware infrastructure physically exists on one or more of the premises owned by the cloud provider or one of their partners. This means your data is always offsite, and issues such as back-up and security of access, is managed for you by the cloud provider....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs