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The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...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...Introduction and guidance: Course contributors - Alongside Dr Louise MacBrayne, a chemist from The Open University, two other academics will feature throughout this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...class fancy, I suppose. So we’re always fighting against that as well and that it’s not just saving the whale or just the traditional things like put a windmill in your garden, although these things are, naturally whales and stuff are very important, it’s a lot more practical, the solutions. Things like technology or just changing the way you live a little bit can...
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Video 30 mins
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...class ideology – tiger moms and helicopter parents – that says if you’re failing to expose your child to 30,000 words you are neglecting them.” Tronick believes that just because a child isn’t learning from the screen doesn’t mean there’s no value to it – particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do some housework or simply have a break from...
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Article 5 mins
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...class distinction. (World Heritage List Advisory Body Evaluation, 1994, p. 78) World Heritage List: Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Justification by State Party [Edinburgh New Town, view 1] (Photo: © Tim Benton) © Photo: © Tim Benton Figure 5: Edinburgh New Town, view 1 [Edinburgh New Town, view 2] (Photo: © Tim Benton) © Photo: © Tim Benton Figure 6 Edinburgh New...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...La Pedrera Farms is a large agricultural association founded by the largest landowner in the area. Its interest is to promote best practices, agricultural employment and skills and conservation programmes in Catalonia. The association often collaborates in large government projects to train farmers and coordinates large-scale transition programmes. They, too, are a major...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...class research in my field and disseminate my research and knowledge in an open and free manner. To work in the area of engineering while rigorously maintaining my values with regard to environmental sustainability. To incorporate my love of aviation into my working life. To work in a flexible institution where I will be able to take time off in the week in exchange for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Article 10 mins
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...classes and classes into phyla...Week 2: Global biodiversity: 2 Diversity - The variety of life on Earth is described by the term biodiversity, a shortened form of biological diversity, but the term doesn’t just refer to the number of species or individuals that can be found in a particular habitat. Biodiversity can be described at three major levels, the highest of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs