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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...children in the household? The calculator gives its results in terms of your individual or personal emissions, both direct and indirect. However, household income and a much consumption (eg, heating, vehicle use, the house itself, services like mortgage payments, and hence responsibility for their emissions) is usually shared. The result is emissions per person are lower...
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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...research essays. In order to do this, you will need to be able to read the most appropriate sources and use some of the theories and information they contain in your essays. You will learn to do this during the first two weeks of this course. This week you start by looking at the different texts that university students read. You will then learn to follow an active...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...children and adults is judged by different yardsticks, fluency will seem different for different people and different contexts. To be ‘fluent’ while shopping is different from being ‘fluent’ when undertaking university studies; to be ‘fluent’ as a supermarket check-out operator is different from being ‘fluent’ as a university student. Overall, the key...
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How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...researchers used satellite images to determine changes in vegetation, and in the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed in different areas of a small city in El Cerrado the commune Aguas de Santa Barbara. They confirmed that a policy banning human-caused fires between 1986 and 2015 encouraged the growth of denser forest. This led to an increase, by 1.2 tons, of the carbon...
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The Internet at 40
Science, Maths & Technology

The Internet at 40

...research into Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities. The interviews are presented by radio journalist Penny Boreham... The Internet at 40 A short introduction to this album. A brief history of the future Professor John Naughton of The Open University reveals some of the key players in the history of the internet, and explores some of the...
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Audio 1 hr 33 mins
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...research and developments in both subject pedagogy and broader educational practice. It provides an opportunity to engage in critically reflective dialogues about practice, with both the beginner teacher and others who support them. For many, mentoring or tutoring is a valuable CPD opportunity as well as providing important evidence on a CV of involvement in the latest...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...children and divorce were being discussed as social problems, but others on the list did not attract much attention. There are two possible explanations for such differences. One is that social problems change. If in the late nineteenth century there were no homeless people, then we would not expect homelessness to have been discussed as a social problem. The second...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...Researchers have known for some time that the way employers treat their staff can have a huge impact on their mental health and wellbeing, especially around life events. Paid employment can impact health and wellbeing positively by generating a sense of self identity and purpose, the act of being in paid work itself can be seen as psychologically beneficial (DWP, 2006)....
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