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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...management of natural resources both for those living today and for those in the future, in a manner that is just and fair, including for people on the margins of society. The third leg stands for what I term “cultures of peace”. These take the form of fairness, respect, compassion, forgiveness, recompense and justice. The three legs of the stool support the seat,...
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Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...manage to find wonderful new solutions. In this part of the course you will be exposed to some of this magic, and you will be encouraged to tease out some of the systematic knowledge about designing, using an extensive set of illustrations and case studies. There will be self-assessment questions to help you develop and test what you are learning. Sometimes they will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Succeed with learning Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...manage the challenges that life keeps throwing my way? If you are thinking about questions like these, Succeed with learning is just what you are looking for. This course takes your life as its starting point, developing your awareness of just how much you have already learned and what you are capable of. It will suggest ways of 'fine-tuning', and building on, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...projects, for example, the Girls’ Education Challenge. Could you share some headlines from the project? SALLY GEAR The Girls’ Education Challenge was a slightly different model when we first set it up because as you know DFID normally works very decentralised with government. Some of our money will be in partnership with government, some with projects. So it’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...projects they may be producing. This course consists of five teaching weeks and will take around 12 hours to complete. We have included some activities for you to complete and indicated approximate timings for these. We have also included students’ skill development sections which give suggestions for work that your students could engage in. This free course, Teaching...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...management is a practice with processes, methods, and tools for managing risks in a project, activity or event. It provides a disciplined environment for proactive decision making to: assess continuously what could go wrong (identify risks) determine which risks are important to deal with implement strategies to deal with those risks. It is a decision-making process that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...project. I asked a sample of around 200 people what they consider racist or not. MTurk has a strong skew toward white liberals, but this shouldn’t affect comparisons between groups. The first point is that whites and minorities largely agree on what is, and is not, racist. Look at the results by race in Figure 2. Notice how small the differences are between the white...
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