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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...2 What's out there for our school? - There are close to three thousand museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK and there are approximately 100 million visits made to them every year. Internationally important collections of ancient relics and artistic masterpieces jostle for our attention alongside personal collections of precious oddities. We have a dynamic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...2 mmol dm−3, which is enough oxygen in solution to maintain the respiration rate of a unicellular organism. Thus, very small organisms living at temperatures of about 5 °C are able to obtain their oxygen requirement by passive diffusion. However, at 40 °C the solubility falls to around 1 mmol dm−3. But what about larger organisms, ie humans? Two problems must be...
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Activity 10 mins
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...2. Taking Action Activism can help with feelings of eco-anxiety. This young activist sums up how activism has helped her: ‘I’m involved in activism because it gives you a real sense of power, it feels like you are actually doing something that will help. It’s so easy to feel powerless and overwhelmed by the many problems the world is facing and activism is a kind of...
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Article 5 mins
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...2): 174-201. Mignolo, Walter (2000) Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Ortiz, Fernando (1947) Cuban Counterpoint. Tobacco and Sugar. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Pennycook, Alastair (2003) Global Englishes, rip slyme, and performativity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7(4): 513-533....
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Article 5 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...2 images. Left: Palm open, facing the viewer, thumb tucked in. Right: hand is closed, thumb trapped in.] Healthy brain hormones, and the messages they send To prevent you from ‘flipping your lid’ you need to keep your brain happy and healthy. You may not have a diagnosable mental health condition, but you may feel your mood is a little flat, you lack motivation, or...
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Article 5 mins
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...2) into the field, often using the same or similar conventional research practices, thereby perpetuating the very inequities they claim to be working against. So, how can researchers help to ensure that the questions they formulate are meaningfully premised on EDI principles? Here, I (a white cisgendered female) focus on two core responsibilities. Firstly, through...
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Article 25 mins
Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol

...le gyda 2 radd o gynhesu, tua’r cyfnod 2050 i 2070 y bydd yn rhaid i allyriadau byd-eang fod wedi cyrraedd eu brig a lleihau yn sylweddol. Ac ar y pwynt hwnnw, byddant yn mynd trwy sero a byddant yn mynd yn negyddol wrth i ni sugno mwy o’r nwyon yma allan o’r atmosffer nag y byddwn yn eu rhoi ynddo. Cynhesu byd-eang Cynhesu byd-eang yw’r cynnydd tymor hir yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...the way she has employed the sources available to her. Following on, in Section 2, you will consider in what ways an artist's life can help explain the art he or she produced. Section 3 will then compare other ways of interpreting works of art with those contained within a biographical structure, and consider the possibilities and limitations of the biographical monograph. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of ......
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs