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How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...projects The occasional mender: just fixes what they need, when they need it The delegating mender: prefers someone else to do the fixing The heritage mender: learns from traditions and passes them on The serviced mender: takes things to professionals to get the job done. These personas show us that a one-size-fits-all solution won’t work. A repair café might be...
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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...project, launched in 2024, set out to address this challenge. At its heart is the Black STEM Hub, a space created by and for Black STEM students to learn, connect, share experiences, and build supportive networks. Through recorded monthly online sessions that covered themes of Imposter syndrome, Employability, Financial literacy, and Black History, the Black STEM Hub is a...
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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...Introduction - This course focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate level study in Education and Mathematics...Working on your own mathematics: Learning...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...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 1: Introductory 24 hrs
OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...year running. [Northern Ireland Science Festival Logo][Copyrighted image Icon][space science masters image]Study space science at postgraduate level to prepare for managing major missions like those to Mars: MSc in Space Science and Technology Study space science at undergraduate level: Questions in science - introductory level Planetary science and the search for life...
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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and German. Later on, I learnt some English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border,...
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National Enrichment Programme for Schools
Education & Development

National Enrichment Programme for Schools

...management Studying with the OU Study part time for a degree with The Open University in Wales Have you completed your studies in Wales and considering your next move? Explore the flexibility of a part-time degree with The Open University in Wales, and fit your studies around your life so that you can earn while you learn. We offer high quality courses to anyone with the...
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Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...Introduction - Energy from sources other than fossil or nuclear fuels is to a large extent free of the concerns about environmental effects and renewability that characterise those two sources. Each alternative source supplies energy continually, whether or not we use it. Many alternative sources of energy have been used in simple ways for millennia, e.g. wind and water...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs