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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...analysis within policy communities, both horizontally – across sectors – and vertically – across scales from global to local within particular policy sectors. ‘Good governance’ as laid out in the pious tomes of the EU, the UN and other organisations is a very high ambition; there are cases where it is claimed to be in place, but it patently isn't. There are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...data, you focus on the cohort with Daria, Shenna and Chloe in it? Are you thinking of observing them with the IT, or running additional support sessions? How are you going to baseline the problem first? I’d really like to know what the block to them engaging is. Nell: I’m not sure. Actually, I don’t find they are the ones struggling. For me, it is more widespread...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...data from these experiments after you’ve watched this video. So what we’ll do next is put 30 nanocoulombs of charge on the test charge and on sphere A. Now I’ll record the readings, and you should see them appear on your screen. The values in millinewtons are 0.62, 0.63, 0.65, 0.64, 0.68 and 0.69. Now we’ll ground these two spheres. So I’ll use an earth rod and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...analysis. He concluded that Bletchley Park was in fact too late in decoding the messages, which identified the Bismarck’s course. Winterbotham knew about the decrypts he passed to the Admiralty, but he didn't know about the other sources of information the Admiralty were also using. The lesson to be learned is that the phrase ‘I was there’ doesn’t always mean that...
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Article 5 mins
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...analysis suggests that those working in ‘shutdown’ sectors were already almost twice as likely to be in poverty with women accounting for higher employment in many of these sectors. Several of the articles in this collection pick-up explicitly on some of the developments highlighted above and further illustrate the ways in which the value of work by women has been...
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Article 10 mins
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...analysis to explain how Britain could successfully overawe another, mighty empire thousands of miles away from Europe, and so gain Hong Kong. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A326 Empire: 1492–1975...How do empires work?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what a ‘system of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru
Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...data am eich ardal; mae'n werth archwilio'r data hyn drwy fynd yn uniongyrchol i wefan eich Awdurdod Lleol neu drwy fynd i wefan Busnes Cymru lle gwelwch ddolenni i bob un o'r 22 ALl yn ogystal â gwybodaeth a chymorth ychwanegol. Ar ddiwedd yr adran hon, rydym yn awgrymu rhai ffynonellau posibl o wybodaeth a chymorth. Tasg 1: Amcanion personol Ysgrifennwch eich amcanion...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Data from the ONS shows that in the UK around on average people gave a score of 7.8 out of 10 for the happiness index. While the same research also showed that on average anxiety scores in the same population were 3.2 out of 10. You can search for how people in your post-code area felt by using the Personal well-being interactive maps. [Image of five young people stood in...
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Article 10 mins