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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...back into the warmth of my house, I think about the fact that we soon may have three active rovers and an active lander on Mars – at the same time. And what they might find… This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website. Banner image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS; processings and mosaic: Olivier de Goursac (fr), 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons...
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Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...class children, to benefit from public education. They’re incapable of learning to read and write, and why are we spending time on this. So there’s also built into it, a whole series of assumptions about social structure and capacity. It was driven by an economic imperative of the time. But running right through it was an intellectual model of the mind, which was...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge...Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits: 1 Definitions - Understanding the terminology used to describe studying in more than one subject and the differences...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...de Janeiro, with 1 million people attending over the extended holiday weekend. The carnival has about 40,000 volunteers helping out and usually about 9,000 police. The carnival creates a huge surge in demand for both private and public services. In a normal year about 270 licensed food, drink and merchandise stalls temporarily appear. The organisers also provide support...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...class’, ‘poorly educated’ and ‘old people living in backwaters’ being implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) contrasted with the more dynamic, highly educated young people living in cosmopolitan areas. They also fit uneasily with voting patterns outside England and Wales. The question posed here is, however, a rather different one – namely whether the divisions...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...la (shortened to l’) for una – is used, followed by the hour. For midday and midnight, è is used, without the article: È mezzogiorno. It’s midday. È mezzanotte. It’s midnight. To emphasise an exact time on the hour, you can add in punto (‘on the dot’). Sono le undici in punto. It’s eleven o’clock precisely...Week 1: Talking about the time: 4 Expressing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...class children but these were funded by government (Thane, 2011). However, it seems that the boundaries are becoming even more ‘blurred’ because services traditionally run by government are being run by other sectors. In the case of the UK, think of how private sector organisations are now running services that used to be provided by local authorities or hospitals...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...de la Plata football was also flourishing in Uruguay. Clare Balding As in Argentina the game of football had been brought to Uruguay by British teachers and schoolboys, and again its popularity took off. The Olympics of 1924 and ‘28 were won by Uruguay with Argentina finishing runners up. And the first World Cup held in Uruguay was won by the hosts beating their...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs