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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Open University course EE814 Addressing inequality and difference in educational practice...Exploring equality and equity in education: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: delineate different understandings of equality in education give some examples of inequalities in different cultures and jurisdictions...Exploring equality and equity...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...open and obvious. People upon hearing that we are elves simply do not believe their own eyes and ears. They think that we are joking and we share their laughter.” In the 1990s, with the beginning of the digital revolution, R’ykanadar Korra’ti founded the niche publication Elfkind Digest, initially as a mailing list. “This is not … about role-playing or...
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Article 10 mins
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...Open University has been looking specifically at how people’s actions create the context of the space in which they communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally...
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Article 10 mins
How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...Open University's Environment courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift,...
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Article 5 mins
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...opened and, although carbon dating failed, isotopic tests confirmed that the remains were indeed Eadgyth’s. But what’s puzzling is that not all of Eadgyth was actually in the lead casket: her hands and feet were nowhere to be found and most of the skull was missing. What happened to these? Experts at the time of the exhumation suggested that thieves had struck in...
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Article 10 mins
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Open University’s English language courses and qualifications....Week 1: Exploring the language of branding: Introduction - To start this course, take a look at the following slideshow of logos. You’re probably familiar with many of the items in the slideshow. Think for a moment on what one or two of these mean to you. You may have thought that ‘Ferrari’ denotes...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Extending and developing your thinking skills: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: feel more confident about studying understand any grades received and how to improve them overcome problems with reading and writing make the most of the opportunities a higher education course provides...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...Open University course BB849 Supply chain management...Supply chain sustainability: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what is meant by sustainability in the context of the supply chain explain the four perspectives of supply chain sustainability assess the degree of sustainability in your (or any other) organisation from...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs