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You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...children 16 1,379 12 Single, not retired, with children 16 466 27 Couple, not retired, without children 16 1,745 4 Couple, not retired, with children 16 1,384 8 Single retired 59 0 Couple retired 1,252 2 Source: BIS, 2010 Table 1 demonstrates the relationship between debt problems and family type. The table shows that family type single, not retired, with children ......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...centres consumed about 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014, the most recent year examined, representing 2 percent of the country’s total energy consumption, according to the study. That’s equivalent to the amount consumed by about 6.4 million average American homes that year. This is a 4 percent increase in total data centre energy consumption from 2010...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...research in this area...Open education: 1.1 Week 1 Introduction - The aim of this week is to familiarise you with some of the concepts and to get you thinking about some of the issues involved. We will then explore these in more detail in the coming weeks. The materials presented in this week are largely drawn from Week 7 of the Open University H817 course Openness and...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...research to find out more about authors with whom you’re unfamiliar, but don’t spend more than half an hour on this), and note where the sources corroborate or contradict each other. Discussion Let’s take each of these sources in turn and try to determine whether they tell us anything reliable about the fate of the library. The brief account in Plutarch’s Life of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...centre of power. It is not to say that these people did not have opinions about the emperor, but these were rarely recorded or they were summarised in sources mediated through an élite perspective centred on Rome. Even when evidence such as statues, inscriptions and honorary dedications set up to the emperor by soldiers or civilians survives, it remains difficult to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...children and grandchildren are said to have a 'green sustainability agenda'. Those who concentrate on the difficulties experienced by those currently living in a low-income socially-deprived area are said to have a 'brown environmental health agenda'. There are almost as many perspectives on the environment as there are on political parties. This OpenLearn course provides...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...research into information on childhood vaccination, you will see how computer algorithms can shape our beliefs and actions. You will also be introduced to the field of digital forensics and learn how data are stored on and deleted from hard disk and solid-state drives. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University courses TM111 Introduction to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...research projects, the first being Quiet Sustainability. We’re trying to work out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are growing so much of their own fruit and vegetables. We call this quiet sustainability because they’re just getting on with it, without any great hoo-hah about it being an...
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Video 5 mins