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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...management (e.g. organic matter rotting in landfill sites) adds a further anthropogenic source of CH4 (around 17% of global emissions). And since natural gas is mainly methane, so too does leakage from natural gas pipelines and the common practice of venting the gas to the atmosphere at oil production sites and from coal mines (a further 19%). Finally, burning vegetation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...manage without something called ‘theory’, and simply rely on common sense, then think how you would feel about a new recruit coming into your workplace without a grasp of the kinds of key ideas that you noted above, or who was still operating with the assumptions that you identified as common a couple of decades ago. Theory can be the building blocks of practice or it...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...manageable. As the answer to part (b) of Activity 8 implies, evidence of this type is now prompting a reappraisal of the arboreal hypothesis. Maybe the development of primate-style vision and grasping hands and feet and the reduction of curved claws are adaptations linked with feeding on the fruits and insects on the low-growing shrubs, rather than high up in trees. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!’ ‘Would you tell me please,’ said Alice, ‘what that means?’ ‘Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. ‘I meant by “impenetrability” that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...management culture that readily used a network of spies to intimidate and regulate the workforce (Smith, 1993, p. 54). Yet, other than this, there is little to suggest the capitalist relations of production that actually framed the production process at the plant. As art historian Anthony Lee puts it: ‘The factory floor is laid out like a blueprint, a manual for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...manager, Fiona Boyle, used racist language when raising a disciplinary issue. Fiona Boyle admits using a raised voice, but denies using discriminatory language. There is one other witness, Erika Edwards, another employee who was present at the time, who says that Fiona Boyle did use racial language. However, the words that Erika Edwards says Fiona Boyle used are different...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs