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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
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
Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...centre stage as the East European country most affected by the surge of refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East. An estimated 44,000 people have arrived on Croatian territory since its neighbouring countries began to reject arrivals. Croatia’s immediate stance on the refugee crisis was that no walls would be built and no barbed wire would be erected, because...
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Article 5 mins
However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice
Society, Politics & Law

However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice

...centre ground of politics and that you can’t win elections from a left-wing, tax-raising position – even if that’s a theory that seems to have been upheld by recent opinion polls. What the 2017 Labour manifesto ultimately illustrates therefore is a clear break with the years of political consensus that broadly covered the 1979 to 2010 governments of Margaret...
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Article 5 mins
Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?

...centre of a lot of people’s lives, its significance is vastly diminished during this public health crisis. People have been shocked at the postponement of major sports events, such as the 2020 Olympic Games, but this is a minor issue when we consider there are thousands of people around the world dying daily. However, the loss of live sport has left a chasm in the...
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Article 10 mins
The secrets of the brain
Science, Maths & Technology

The secrets of the brain

...responsible person into an antisocial, disrespectful man. His general intelligence did not change, however. This incident allowed scientists to discover that the frontal lobes are our emotional control centre. Our brain is as complicated as it is important. If you think about it, right now your brain is actually reading information about itself. How remarkable is that?...
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Article 10 mins
Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...centres, poverty, the media and status. Peer pressure was discussed a lot: Yeah cos its like, all this badness and robbery ting that they’re on, I think it’s because like the young ones they’re looking to the elders isn’t it, like and they see what the elders do. – Santi, aged 17. They also talked about the need to have “back up”, and the protection that...
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Article 5 mins
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...research balloons are built to be able to fly in the stratosphere in the thin air. Most of the sky would already be dark, rather than blue, for a passenger in such an aircraft. The top of the stratosphere lies at about 50 km altitude. Although there are more rarefied atmospheric layers above, for practical purposes the environment is already much more like ‘space’ by...
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Article 20 mins