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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...family’. These are all the words that have a similar form and meaning. The word family of strategy includes: strategic, strategies, strategically, strategist, and strategists. These words allow you to express an idea in a different way, perhaps when paraphrasing. For example, the phrase ‘adopt a strategy to deal with a problem’ can be turned to ‘deal with a...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. How to get a badge Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read all sessions of the course score 50% or more in the end-of-course badge quiz in Session 3. In the end-of-course quiz, you can have three attempts at most of the...
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...family member or colleague. Part 3 If you’re an educator, in the broadest sense of the term, reflect on the extent to which you feel equipped to support your learners in coping with emotions related to the climate emergency and any strategies you’ve used to date (where relevant)...Session 1: Preparing to teach the climate emergency: 2.1 Your own wellbeing - Learning...
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...history tells us that mass (m) and energy (E) are interchangeable via cap e equals m times c squared , where c is the speed of light, 3.00 × 108 m s–1. The energies involved are usually expressed in terms of a unit called the electronvolt. As a result, it’s also convenient to refer to the masses of subatomic particles in terms of their energy equivalence. For...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...families with low incomes. “Our children are from the slum area,” says teacher R G Sudha, as more than 400 kids aged 5 to 13 line up dutifully to receive their shots. “They play with cats and dogs, and they don’t know [about rabies]. So many children have been bitten.” Three doctors and two medical students are injecting each child in his or her arm. Some of the...
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...Brexiters that their interest is best served by its programme could get a resounding victory. At the moment Brexiters are drawn toward the Conservatives, how long that remains to be the case as the implications of Britain's withdrawal become clear is to be seen. The only thing I am prepared to predict is that the two tribes will not merge into one big happy family....
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. Requirements You do not need a professional telescope for this course, but you may find at least a pair of binoculars extremely useful. No prior experience of the subject is required. This OpenLearn science course is produced with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...history was made by males. At the moment that women are beginning to share in the making of the world, this world still belongs to men: men have no doubt about this, and women barely doubt it. Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially...