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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...students to the geographical concept of entanglement as a tool for exploring these interrelated factors. Using the ideas of the environmental historian Stephen Pyne, the course establishes that wildfires are entangled physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but will also feature a series of weekly articles on different aspects of climate change as seen from the perspective of different...
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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...becomes harder to achieve. A level of mutual understanding is necessary to allow effective collaboration to take place and the project to progress. Mutual understanding can be fostered by the use of suitable collaboration and communication tools, and therefore the evaluation and choice of the most appropriate available tools is an important activity for the virtual...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...become probably more effective at what you do. Coach resilience (Part 1) Now, having watched the video, answer the following questions: What was the aim of the research and why did the researchers feel that coach resilience was an important area to study? What were the key findings of the research? The research examined ‘super-elite’ Olympic medal-winning coaches. Do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...students. Colour Student Journal. P. 396-406 Valdez, P., & Mehrabian, A. (1994) Effects of Colour on Emotion, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 123, No. 4, p. 394-409 Wright, A. Colour Affects. Available at http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours. Accessed 29th July 2015. Zentner, M.R., (2001) Preferences for colours and colour-emotion...
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
Languages

Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...students. I’m not the only one. Twitter has an enormous reach in many areas including politics, science and business, and companies and advertisers know this only too well. From celebrities / influencers being paid to feature products on their timeline to the millions paid for advertising and featured tweets, everyone is at it. Educational institutions also promote...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...students from Columbia University demonstrating the Indian Rope Trick.]The magician Joseph Dunninger with students from Columbia University demonstrating the Indian Rope Trick ... between public and private ... Having grown up on a political faultline, Colette Bryce is aware of borders, restriction and freedoms. This comes through subtly in her personal poems when she...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...students suspected of undefined extremism. For his part, French prime minister, Manuel Valls, in an unwelcome echo of the appalling failures of the Blair–Bush era, has called for a war on terrorism. David Cameron will soon fly to the US to discuss the Paris murders with Barack Obama, as well as plans for enhanced intelligence collaboration. Strange since, if the Snowden...
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Article 10 mins