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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
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Article 10 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...education, environment) multiple levels (e.g. local, national, global; micro, meso, macro). Difference This quality is rooted in the reality that all of the interested parties come with their own specific identities, arising out of – and contributing to – their own specific histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...education, community science, crowd-based or crowd-sourced science and volunteer monitoring, to name a few. The term citizen science was first used in the 1990s in both the UK and the USA and came from two different frameworks. In his book Citizen Science, Alan Irwin considers the role that scientific expertise can play in bringing the public and science together and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...educational course vital to the next stage of your career. In this situation, the general interview guidelines apply, but you should also familiarise yourself with the entry requirements. You need to be prepared to talk in detail about the content of your previous study. For a vocational course, identify specific examples of experience you have gained through related...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...education. You will look at the different sources of information university students normally read. University readings can be long and approaching them can be daunting. You will consider some of the challenges students sometimes face when approaching these readings and learn an active reading method which allows you to break a reading task in to small manageable steps....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...education, where there isn't a properly motivated workforce, you are clearly going to have a workforce there that can't compete properly, can't make the best use of the opportunities that exist in a developed country. And instead of course they have to compete directly by falling wages. Digby Anderson You were asked particularly about international comparisons. Are there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...education, which is in her long-term interest. As you will see when you read Warburton's book, Berlin thinks that both concepts of freedom are important, but he also warns that they can be abused. If negative freedom is not restricted, then the strong will have a licence to exploit the weak. (For example, most people would accept that the state should place restrictions...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs