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Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...history. This course explores Solar power as a source of directly useable energy. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Science. You may also be interested in our badged course Can renewable energy sources power the world?...Energy resources: Solar energy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the principles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...history of the Earth. They’re being besieged with information and pulls their attention from every platform: computers, from iPhones, from advertiser hoardings, from hundreds of television channels. And we’re penalising them for getting distracted. From what? Boring stuff at school for the most part. It seems to me it’s not a coincidence totally that the incidence...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...history of technological and organisational innovation and change has been remarkable. Indeed, approaching this issue from entirely different ideological perspectives, Karl Marx in the 19th century and Joseph Schumpeter in the early to mid 20th century both recognised technological and organisational innovation as a fundamental feature of the ‘creative-destructive’...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...family members who were, or had been, migrant workers in large Indonesian and south-east Asian cities, or crewing on international merchant ships. It was significant, therefore, that most migrant workers would return home permanently and not think about settling elsewhere, even though island life held so many challenges and uncertainties, and for most, returning meant a...
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Video 15 mins
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...family’s home in the early seventies, my father read The Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, and the fear that we are going to run out of energy was one of the big features of that report and in ’73 it then became almost a reality in Germany and I think in Europe as a whole, when the oil boycott kicked in. And I can remember we could play on the motorways because on...
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Audio 5 mins
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...family, the counterculture reproduced traditional (even conservative) positions for women, as their roles – like their mothers and grandmothers before them – were to provide unpaid domestic and sexual labour: cooking, cleaning, caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...families have been a part of Grand Isle’s makeup. People come down on the weekend. And if they all stopped coming because of the oil spill, I mean, the island would just dry up. If you’re a tourist town, you have to have tourists. Subsequently, it’s coming back as the word gets out that we’re OK and viable and the beach is good. [MUSIC PLAYING] MARLENE CHAPPELL:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...family think. But at another level our Western society and education has trained us all in certain ways of thinking. The two main kinds are logical thinking and causal thinking...Systems thinking and practice: 3.1 Logical thinking - The classic example of logical thinking is a form of reasoning which goes like this: ‘If all cows are animals, and this is a cow, then it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs