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Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads

...Roads An an introduction to this album How a quarry works Quarry managers explain how rock is formed and how they extract different layers of stone. Once blasted and processed, it is used to build roads. Longterm sustainability of quarries A look at the road laying process. The need to supply locally, use natural road products and protect the environment around quarries....
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Audio 14 mins
Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Biodiversity

...work in South Africa, protecting the delicate ecosystem of a unique heath-land habitat called 'fynbos'... Biodiversity An introduction to this album iSpot A guided tour of the key features of iSpot.org.uk, showing how people of all ages can contribute to this database of biodiversity. Fynbos, a floral kingdom Silvertown introduces some of his latest projects, in...
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Audio 12 mins
Sensory augmentation devices
History & The Arts

Sensory augmentation devices

...work of Paul Bach-Y-Rita's minimal tactile vision sensory substitution (TVSS) systems, are now helping progress research in other very practical applications... Sensory augmentation devices How can new technology help you to play a new musical instrument? The E-Sense research programme, which is building novel augmentation devices to explore sensory, bodily and cognitive...
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Video 8 mins
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...work towards gaining a digital badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. In this case the course is linked to masters study in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport. To...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...working in education and working with children and young people will be examined. You will explore distinct and influential ways in which people think about and study the complexities around working with children and young people, the practices involved in learning and teaching and the structures that support and impact on them. You will become familiar with the different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. Why do research? Pause for a moment and think about this. You could think about this on your own, or you could talk to friends, colleagues in the same class, or your...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...work. Factors influencing health, or the ‘wider determinants of health and ill-health’ as they are often called, are complex and contested. Family circumstances, poverty, education, work, housing and environment all impact on our health to some extent. Public health has become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...and the networks needed to connect it all together – are the same. As they do work to process and create data, they consume energy, of which a great deal is turned into heat. To avoid damage, this heat must be removed through cooling which itself is another major consumer of energy in the cloud. In some of the very best hyperscale data centres, the amount of energy used to cool is one tenth of that used to power the ......
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Article 5 mins