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Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...OU, compares his daring mission to Mars with Beagle II with Charles Darwin's epochal voyage to the Galapagos in the orginal Beagle. He discusses the parallels between the two expeditions, comparing both their scientific approach and their equipment. Darwin's professor An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology...
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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
Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...OU student (in the early 2000s), on the Social Sciences programme, was formative – I picked up a lot about sociological approaches and ideas, some of which I still use today in my research. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? The latter two years of my undergraduate degree coincided with the start of the First World War centenary...
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What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...become a sword; a hairbrush transforms into a microphone; a blanket draped over two chairs is a den. Creativity emerges through children’s exploration, curiosity and following their own interests. Their ideas promote skills such as problem-solving, redefining space and materials, communication with others involved in their play and negotiating skills to enable their...
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Where does outer space begin?
Science, Maths & Technology

Where does outer space begin?

...becomes more and more tenuous with height. If you look at this diagram that shows how atmospheric temperature varies with height, you will see that 30,000 meters are only about halfway to the top of the stratosphere and that there are layers called the mesosphere and the thermosphere above that! [Temperature variation with height in the Earth’s atmosphere. The warming...
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What does climate change mean for Pakistan?
Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...become more frequent, prolonged and intense, Wajid tells SciDev.Net. He and his team relied on historical datasets of heat wave events and daily maximum temperature variations for the study period. The data was drawn from the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) through 29 weather stations in the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan. Heat waves are defined as...
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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...students to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of graffiti examples, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, 'tags' in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald's advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern. Students will consider different arguments for and against the perception of graffiti...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs