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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...history, OpenLearn’s inclusive, innovative and responsive work has positively impacted millions of people: 73.9% said using OpenLearn had improved confidence in their ability to study and 45.3% thought it had improved their employability. Career knowledge and skills In 2020 OpenLearn was a flagship partner for the UK Department for Education’s new The Skills Toolkit,...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...history of OU systems thinking - Systems Thinking at the Open University: 50-year celebration (OU Systems @50) is available to download (Ison, 2021). Reasons to be cheerful Fifty years on, the OU has a thriving postgraduate suite of qualifications in systems thinking in practice (STiP) and extensive experience of designing and delivering STiP education and scholarship....
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...history long before we touch them. Approximately 80% of a product’s lifetime carbon footprint is embodied within the device itself. This includes the CO2e generated during manufacture, storage, and transportation. That means that when you buy a new smartphone that requires a USB cable for charging, that cable’s CO2e emissions (as well as the charger and packaging) are...
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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...history, charms, rites and rituals have been used to attempt to retake control of life, particularly in times of distress and uncertainty. During the COVID-19 pandemic new superstitions appeared across the world, like drinking cow wee in India, or warding off evil by displaying disembowelled monkeys in Cambodia. In the UK, conspiracy theories circulated about mobile phone...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...history of slang, feels there’s been a notable upswell in the ‘vocabulary of vilification’ in the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s victory. And the reason for this, he suggests, in an interview with the journalist Jessica Goldstein, is likely down to the increasing polarisation of political opinions that’s taken place in society of late. Coining of a whole new...
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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...history. Watching the footage of his second, record-breaking jump, you can see that on the runway he is relishing the moment having just broken the world record again minutes previously. He knows he might do it again and is supremely confident and relaxed. Later, he admitted that if he could combine the physicality of Gothenberg with the technical perfection of Lille he...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...history month and Valentine’s Day. This year, however, I thought I could rest up a bit on February 14, given that I said everything I wanted to say about the celebration of romantic love last Valentine. I was wrong. Facebook chose February 14 2014 to do one of the most exciting things that has happened in the area of gender and social media for a long time. It changed...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...history, suggesting that there is a strong social or cultural element, but our experience of ourselves as female or male is far deeper than some kind of social brainwashing. This raises a new question: how does the social or cultural become so deeply engrained that gender identities and gender differences seem fundamental to who we are? As Rosalind Gill has written, "how...
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