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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...OU student already mentioned) might have completed the table. Discussion Our communication skills, or lack of them, can have more effect than we might think. Reflecting on what you reveal about yourself can allow you to become a more effective communicator. In Karen’s case, improving one communication skill had the knock-on effect of improving another...Week 3:...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...students considering the residential school for the SXR260 The geological history of the British Isles course, based in the north of England. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Science...Geological processes in the British Isles: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: summarise and identify descriptions of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the health sector but in other sectors too. It is both ‘multi-professional’ – involving professionals such as police, teachers, housing officers as well as health workers – and ‘inter-sectoral’ – involving different government departments, local government, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...student at Harvard, Michael Marshak, now assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues report in Science journal that, instead of costly and difficult-to-handle metals, they have tested naturally-occurring, carbon-based molecules called quinines for the negative electrolyte component of the battery. They had started their...
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Article 5 mins
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...student. It’s hard to ignore that kind of phone call. Running with it The same technology can power smart sports clothing, so that your jogging suit or cycling shorts could carry a global positioning system (GPS) unit and a fitness monitor powered by your movements as you pedal or run. You could monitor and analyse your workout before you hit the shower. Australian...
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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...student journalists at Cardiff University each year: “If you’re first and wrong, you’re not first.” Unsourced chatter Channel 4 News’s apology said their correspondent quoted a source he trusted naming the attacker. No further information on who the source was or where the information came from was provided. Like many news addicts, I was watching Twitter as the...
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Article 5 mins
Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996). Current students should look at DTS206's block on food, which addresses the question of affluent diets and its effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
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Article 5 mins