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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. In our FREE course 'Astronomy with an online telescope', you get to use The Open University’s own robotic telescope facility COAST sited on the island of Tenerife. How cool is that? …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...system was permanently weakened. She was ill for almost the rest of her life, suffering from regular flare-ups of the chronic intestinal tuberculosis which ultimately led to her early death. Boulanger became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata...
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Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...Systems thinking Anticipatory Normative Strategic Collaboration Critical thinking Self-awareness Integrated problem-solving You can find descriptions of each competency on the UNESCO cross-cutting and specialised SDG competency webpages. We have also created a set of graphics to help visualise each of the eight sustainability competencies and show the relationship between...
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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...systems to prevent trains passing through red lights, so as to prevent collisions (the Train Protection and Warning System – TPWS – deployment completed at the end of 2003; see www.railwaypeople.com [accessed 18 June 2009]). Naturally these systems have to be installed on the track and subsequently maintained. The problem is that the trackside is a very dangerous...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...systems and even charities need to innovate new products, services and processes to compete. To do so means that invariably they need to undergo almost continuous change. This need for change can come about, as Senior et al. (2020) point out, from any source and influence, be it socio-cultural, political-legal, technological or economic. To respond to that need can often...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...system of values, norms and ideas that prevented single motherhood. Something has changed to undermine that moral order (explanations of this may vary – we have become less religious; people are more concerned with individual freedom; there has been a rise in permissiveness; welfare systems have provided benefits to lone parents, making it easier to choose to be a lone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...system. It is worth noting that this fairly simple picture smooths over some important exceptions and complications. Collective self-determination need not mean outright statehood. It could mean instead some form of autonomy or self-government within another state. Many Quebecois are federalists, rather than nationalists; for various reasons, they prefer Quebec to remain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...system, or means of non-verbal communication. (Adapted from Oxford University Press, 2013) The OED also gives a list of examples for each of these uses. Indicate which of the meanings 1 to 4 above each of the examples below illustrates: Select the answer for (a) here [Malayan] is the common Tongue of Trade and Commerce in most of the East India Islands, being the Lingua...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs