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Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...accounted for up to 40% of global CO2 emissions in each of those years. In general, there are three categories of fire severity: low severity surface fires high severity stand replacement fires mixed severity fires. Low severity surface fires (Figure 2) are usually frequent and burn surface fuels at low intensities, causing low understory vegetation mortality. They are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Accountability: it’s easier to live unconsciously; it’s easier to live through other people; it’s easier to give responsibility for your happiness or success to someone or something else. Negativity: self-awareness takes a lot of work; it’s difficult to break habits; self-awareness is intangible; people don’t see the value in getting to know themselves. (adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...account for the longer, narrow face of mainland subspecies compared to Svalbard reindeer. The insulating properties of furs and feathers can be easily compared by wrapping pelts around heated objects such as bars and measuring their rate of cooling under various conditions. Such observations indicate that in still air, the insulation of all coats of fur or feathers is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...account and to recognise cultural differences in regard to the recording and significance of age...Applying social work law to asylum and immigration: 8.2 Trafficking - Data suggests that 2118 young people were trafficked into the UK in 2016 for the purposes of modern day slavery (ECPAT UK, 2018). The UK government has an obligation arising under the Council of Europe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...accounted for 7% of global electricity demand in 2012, but could be as high as 12% in 2017. Activity 2 Find the current figures for the power consumption of computers and computer systems. Compare them with these historic figures. Have the trends between 2012 and 2017 continued? Has the proportion of energy spent on manufacture continued to decline, while the proportion...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...accounting for a very high proportion of acclaimed new books. The day when one major Scottish writer, Hugh MacDiarmid, languished out of print for years on end, and another, Edwin Muir, relied on the recognition of his quality by T.S. Eliot at Faber, were clearly over. The power of the ‘metropolis’ in British poetry had significantly weakened. This corresponded to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...account. The emphasis is not on the tools (systems tools or other tools) being ‘used’, but rather the ‘user’ of the tools. An animated tutorial in two parts describing the workings of the STiP heuristic is available on OpenLearn. Activity 2 The systems thinking practitioner Read the final chapter Systems Approaches Epilogue. You will be invited to revisit this...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...Accountability should feel shared, involving self-evaluation, drawing upon evidence and its relation to the school’s core values, with attention paid to sustainability and legacy. Such a moral, situated set of principles, which recognises the importance of the context, seems a useful reference point for those who are concerned about how top-down processes and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs