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How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...research institutes, funded scientific expeditions to the Andes aimed at discovering new, more productive varieties of potato, and generally promoted potato consumption. The British Commonwealth Potato Collection, like the German Groß Lüsewitz Potato Collection, or the Russian N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, are reminders of this longer history...
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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...research (NCVO, 2019) has shown that on average the largest source of funding for third-sector organisations is donations and support from the public. What this clearly indicates is the importance of stakeholder engagement and active citizenship, most particularly by enhancing volunteering and the level of community empowerment overall...Empowering communities: 2.2...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...researchers in the field. Nonetheless, in recent years a generally accepted definition of creativity has emerged. This holds that creativity is: the generation of novel and useful products within a specific context. (Bristol et al., 2013, p. xii). These ‘products’ refer to everything from physical products to services, ideas, and processes, etc. Critically, however,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...research into information on childhood vaccination, you will see how computer algorithms can shape our beliefs and actions. You will also be introduced to the field of digital forensics and learn how data are stored on and deleted from hard disk and solid-state drives. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University courses TM111 Introduction to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...research. There is no right answer to this activity. In real research, the true answer isn’t always known. The key to estimating the true answer is statistics: the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of numerical data. Scientists use a variety of statistical techniques to analyse data and estimate their uncertainty about the results. The point is, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Professor Lord Nicholas Stern] Lord Nicholas Stern, Kt, PBA, FRS, is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Chairman of its Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is...
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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...Researching and evaluating practice...Understanding service improvement in healthcare: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define ‘service’ in the context of healthcare understand what is meant by ‘service improvement’ in healthcare settings monitor when progress is being made towards service improvement understand what sustains...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...researchers to discover a dependency culture, it seems it's a phantom. John Hills is an economist at the LSE. John Hills The effects of social security benefits on labour supply, on people’s willingness to work, one of the biggest areas of economic and social research over the last few decades, what's extraordinary about a lot of that research is how little effect most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr