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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been...
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...write your response in the box below): What kind of data is being recorded? How were the public engaged and involved? How was data collected? Why are citizen scientists so important? What are some of the conclusions or results? How was this shared or disseminated? (Use the online version of this document to see text that you previously entered displayed here.)...Week 1:...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 2.0 License. The authors very much hope that learners and colleagues will not only profit from but also build on this work: we acknowledge the course as a first draft initially shared over the Web but, nevertheless, deserving of further development. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: CartoonStock Figure 3: taken from: https://kienthuc.net.vn/...
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...writing a paper. So it’s actually transforming their understanding of glaciers. And similarly we actually filmed snow leopards extremely extensively on Planet Earth; it was one of our iconic images, and of course very few scientists ever get to see snow leopards in as much detail as we manage to cover them, and again, we’ve been able to give our rushes to behaviour...
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...writes a weekly column in The Times and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal. As Viscount Ridley, he was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is honorary president of the International...
The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Text Activity 2: Extract from: Kilonzo-Nthenge, A., Rafiqullah, I.,...
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...writing these down before you read on. One student has said: I am never quite sure that I have understood what the figures mean. I tend to skip over the graphs or charts that I come across, hoping that I can get the information I need from the text. This is one course in a series of Student Toolkits; there are (or will be) others to help you with such things as effective...