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Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...studying this course; What are the complexities of environmental issues? How do we understand environmental responsibility? and ways of looking at responsibility in terms of accountability. Album overview: TD866 - Environmental Responsibility Course Chair Martin Reynolds, Lecturer in Systems and Environments breaks down and summarises the tracks on this album, Martin...
60-Second Adventures in Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy

...studied distant stars to learn more about the invisible planets that orbit them. A Day on Mercury No-one on Mercury could claim there's not enough hours in the day. Find out how you'd pass the time on a planet where a single day lasts two years. The Rotating Moon The Moon is like a loyal servant to a Queen, and never turns its back on the Earth. Discover how the Moon's...
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...Studies, a private nonprofit research center. These nonverbals are of fundamental importance to communication, and they often mean more than what is actually being said. This is something that traditional pundits fail to give due credit. This failure can be seen in previous debates in which Trump participated for the Republican presidential nomination. In most cases,...
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...not try our 3rd level module SD329 Signals and Perception: The Science of the Senses. This module can be studied as part of our degree in Health Sciences (Q71) as well as part of the Natural Sciences (Q64) and Open Degree. It is, however, strongly recommended that you do not attempt a third level Open University module without prior Open University study at a lower level....
Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...Studies at The Open University – on some research using Talk Factory in her lessons in January and February 2019. Talk Factory is an online tool and app which supports learning by helping teachers and their students to understand how to engage in productive argumentation in primary and secondary schools. This is an important aspect of education described in the English...
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...Studies, explores what 'lessons' are being learned...The former Ofsted Chief Inspector for England says the only way he can see school closures recovering after COVID-19 is for teachers to work weekends and evenings. I’m not sure if Michael Wilshaw remembers being an inspector and visiting schools, but maybe it has escaped him that teachers have been working weekends...
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...study, Naomi Barnes and Huw Davies question whether Twitter really is a public sphere or if it is simply a platform capitalist that monetises displays of outrage?...[Giant hashtag] Twitter is, of course, many things to many people. It is a place people have connected, had ideas developed, and views broadened. However, it is also violent – a place of trolls, masked and...
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...studying VOCs in ‘analogue environments’. An analogue environment is a location or situation that resembles the geological or biological conditions of another planetary body. Some analogues are laboratory simulations, while some are actual environments on Earth, such as Svalbard in Norway (very cold) or the Atacama Desert in Chile (very dry). In these environments, we...