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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...becomes less mobile. What view will they have from their bed? You may be loaned a hospital bed, or do you still want to share a bed with your partner? What equipment or bedding do you need, where to get it from and how to make space for it? How to get someone to the toilet and what to do if they can’t. Do you need to learn how to give medicines, even injections? Local...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

With more buildings becoming ‘smart’, IT managers are increasingly responsible for the operation of building management systems. This article examines the carbon costs of the on-premises IT digital carbon footprint. ...Find out more about The Open University's Environment courses Reducing digital carbon footprints of digital assets The digital carbon footprints of our...
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...becoming very effective as studies show. Most well-known are the Seek app from California Academy of Sciences as well as PlantNet from CNRS, France. You can even do citizen science from home, identifying species from camera footage online among others! 3. Watching and engaging: There is also more on TV. for instance, you can follow the annual BBC seasonal Watches...
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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...becoming a teaching assistant, or becoming a teacher in the future? In this free course, Primary education: listening and observing, you will have the chance to look inside primary schools, and watch and listen to children and teaching staff. You’ll also find out what head teachers look for in people who want to work or volunteer in a primary school...Would you like to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...become unsuitable in rapidly changing world. Change that is managed purposefully can also lead to systemic failure unless certain things happen. Some of the things that often seem to be missing include: Paying attention to the interconnections and dynamics of a situation. Recognising that when there are multiple actors in a situation there is a need to find a way of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...students, psychologists and psychiatrists. He asked them to speculate on how far they thought most people would go if asked to administer shocks. Most ordinary people said that participants would generally refuse to administer shock, or at least not go very far beyond the point where the ‘learner’ experienced pain. Also, most said that participants should rebel, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...becoming ‘invasive’. Astrobiology expands the discussion about species’ thresholds, their capacity, resilience and ability to survive in extreme environments beyond Earth. For example, tardigrades (water bears) are microscopic living creatures that are known to survive poor conditions on Earth by drying themselves out and slowing down the processes that support...
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Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...become the latest unexpected frontline for the humanitarian crisis unfolding across Europe. The political atmosphere in Hungary isn't exactly welcoming...After being blockaded for days, Budapest’s main rail terminal has been reopened to migrants and refugees desperate to settle in the EU. An estimated 3,000 people had been camped outside the station, and once it was...
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