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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), 2019). During the rest of the twenty-first century, climate change and changes to land use practices are projected to make wildfires even more frequent and intense. It is predicted that global wildfires will increase by 14 percent by 2030, 30 per...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...Children are born into a digital world and exposed to technology from a young age. At work, many routine processes are being automated, and according to some commentators, around 35 per cent of jobs are at high risk of computerisation (BBC News, 2015). Technology is impacting on every area of life and the speed of change is accelerating. All this has implications for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith
Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

...children'). Mae Ian Kessler (2002) yn awgrymu'r rhesymau canlynol dros y datblygiadau hyn: In many areas of the UK, there have been growing problems recruiting and retaining qualified professionals such as nurses and teachers. There has been, from successive governments, a wish to ‘modernise’ public services to make them more responsive to their ‘clients’ and more...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...research Before publication, the content will be reviewed by a member of the editorial team to ensure there are no compliance problems with the piece - e.g. copyright infringement Sometimes the material has been selected from another publication, and is being republished by OpenLearn Why do we use this sort of content? Using high quality third-party content allows us to:...
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Article 5 mins
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...research found that a healthy relationship can actually contribute to one’s professional success – as it provides the stable emotional foundation to concentrate on their career goals. The Harvard Business Review examines this finding in its article “Why You Spend More Hours at Work When Your Relationship Is Going Well”. If you are to engage in office romance then...
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Article 5 mins
'As rich as Croesus'
History & The Arts

'As rich as Croesus'

...Research project and other reliable sources, such as the BBC, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help you to explore where the saying ‘as rich as Croesus’ came from and to provide an opportunity for you to understand how the text of Herodotus can be compared with the archaeological record. [Croesus gold coin] Gold coin of Croesus, from the Metropolitan...
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Activity 5 mins
Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...research shows that 350,000 tonnes of used clothing needlessly goes to landfill in the UK every year, wasting precious resources that could be put to better use by being repaired, passed on or donated. Extending the wearable life of a t-shirt or any other garment by just three months would lead to a 5-10% reduction in the amount of carbon and water used and waste created....
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Article 5 mins
Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...research into female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments for sustainability...[Clothes shopping] I’m sure that many of us are guilty of owning a wardrobe full of clothes but still sometimes feeling that we have nothing to wear. If not yourself, you probably know someone who fits that description, and the likelihood is that a sense of not having the...
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Article 5 mins