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Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)
Education & Development

Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)

...research skills whilst investigating a problem or topic of your interest. You will draw on a variety of resources to deepen your understanding, including Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), scholarly articles, reports, audio visual content and more. Explore this more about this module: https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/yxm830...
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Brexit’s impact on the nations of the UK - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
History & The Arts

Brexit’s impact on the nations of the UK - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...session of the Brexit Special by Student Hub Live, three OU academics who live and research in different parts of the UK will discuss the different factors that shaped their nations’ reactions to the referendum, along with its consequences for the UK’s unity, cohesion and prosperity. Transcript For more Studnet Hub Live events, visit studenthublive.kmi.open.ac.uk/...
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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies....
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like caribou or polar bears, small mammals, such as shrews, and their parasites can serve as indicators of environmental change. Andrew Hope, a biologist at Kansas State University, and his colleagues recently published a study of Arctic shrews in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Becoming a University of Sanctuary
Society, Politics & Law

Becoming a University of Sanctuary

...research has shown that access and participation in higher education has other added benefits for those seeking sanctuary. For example, research has indicated that participation in higher education can give sanctuary students a sense of purpose and an opportunity to participate in cultural life. Research we completed at the OU chimed with this, and while it was recognised...
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Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy
Science, Maths & Technology

Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy

...research on cell.com The chart shows that prostate cancer cells alternate periods of rapid growth with periods of dormancy. In the above example, the tumour will grow to the point where it starts to produce symptoms and the patient seeks treatment – which usually involves cutting the tumour out. Surgery is often effective but, for some unfortunate patients, their cancer...
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Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it says, are affecting the weather worldwide. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says: “Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system. “The rate of change is...
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What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...research, each year we donate around £10 billion to a diverse range of causes such as homelessness, cancer research and animal abuse. In the US, donations are as high as US$358 billion. But trust in big charity is falling, rocked by stories from aggressive fundraising practices – blamed for the death of a 92-year-old woman – and allegations of mismanagement, to...
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