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Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...think, I just don’t understand why they don’t understand? Learning should be transformative, and this course will unlock your full potential, using a practice-based learning tool to help identify the barriers in students' understanding. This free course, Teaching and learning tricky topics, has a course structure that builds upon understanding you have developed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...think of issues related to the environmental impact of the production and distribution of goods and services. Whilst the environmental perspective is certainly very important, it is not the only perspective. To get a holistic overview of supply chain sustainability, all the perspectives of supply chain sustainability should be considered. Once you have a general...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...think it is right for you in terms of asset allocation. ...Asset allocation in investment: 2 Risk and return expectations - One important reason why investors today might not hold the same equity proportion as in 2000 is that the portfolios recommended by Gregory and Rutterford were estimated using historic ten year returns, standard deviations of returns, and correlation...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...think END was, in a way, the intellectual wing. In a way, the movement, certainly in this country and perhaps all over Europe, was inspired by E. P. Thompson’s pamphlet Protest and Survive. But I think E.P. Thompson, an idea-- and Ken Coates and I was part of it --was that in the past, anti-nuclear campaigns were very easily dealt with by the establishment, because you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...think there would need to be a huge number of different sorts of atoms to account for all the substances that exist and that can be made, but in fact there are just 118 different types of atom that have been observed. These are known as the chemical elements and of those 118, only about 90 occur naturally. Each element is represented by a chemical symbol, consisting of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Palaeobiology: The Riddle of the Stomach Stones
Nature & Environment

Palaeobiology: The Riddle of the Stomach Stones

...think these stomach stones, or gastroliths, were used for? After looking at the evidence you can decide for yourself, then compare your conclusions with the conclusions of the experts! Hypothesis 1 - gastroliths for feeding These reptiles do not have teeth suitable for chewing and they must bolt down their prey whole or in large chunks. Therefore, the gastroliths were...
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Article 5 mins
EPQs: help and tips
Education & Development

EPQs: help and tips

...think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. This series of articles includes help and tips from members of AstrobiologyOU, a research group at The Open University, UK. They are all researchers, and the advice...
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Article 5 mins
A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...think about consulting a trained therapist, friends and family, charities, community and work support, and student services. Additionally, below is a list of useful resources and helplines: Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages The NHS overcoming...
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Activity 20 mins