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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...changed his life and he told me the story of that. He said when he was in prison he began to get very depressed and in Bristol Prison at that time you were allowed to keep a budgerigar, that was the only pet that’s ever been allowed in prisons and I don’t think you can anymore, but at that time you could have a budgerigar. And he went, he chose the egg and he went up...
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Video 20 mins
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...changed over the years. A comparative approach provides opportunities to learn about the approaches taken in Northern Ireland and Scotland. You will explore topical issues surrounding young people and crime, such as how rates of victimisation and offending vary, with particular reference to the ways age, gender, race and social class shape young people’s experience of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...change in your teaching. Good luck. Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...changes brought about by information technology will affect every one of us. You may be wondering what digitial technology is and just what is meant by having a digital life. A fundamental idea is that digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers. Computers use digital technologies; so the for benefit of this unit the term...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...change the game by enabling policymakers to make real-time decisions,” said Selamawit Desta, program officer of PMA2020 at Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health located at the US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, during the meeting in Kenya on 27 June. The meeting involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the...
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Article 5 mins
When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...change in market share, in percent, of three companies that are the only manufacturers of a particular device. We’ll call the companies Orange, Green, and Blue and use those colors in our charts. Let’s look at this chart. [Stacked Chart article embed images ] Obviously, Orange started out dominating the market, but Blue expanded rapidly and took over. But here’s the...
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Article 5 mins
Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
Society, Politics & Law

Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?

...changed where migrants crossed into the US, but not whether they did. More migrants were apprehended, but this simply increased the number of times they had to try to get across. It didn’t slow the flow. Border enforcement did, though, make crossing more expensive and more dangerous, which meant that migrants that made it to the US were less likely to leave. Massey and...
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Article 5 mins
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...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 stored in both vegetation and soil in those areas...
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