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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...public derive? ‘Friendships amongst the learned’, I suggest, captures the kind of Royal Society-based international collaboration which underpinned Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-French cutting-edge research on longitude timekeepers in the 1660s. Given such a strong sense of a collaborative environment, it is no wonder that Hooke and his colleagues believed that their research...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...publicity about the pause and criticism of climate scientists for not predicting the pause, but on the other hand nor did you predict accurately the speed of change in the Arctic and the Antarctic, so the picture actually looks both ways, although it’s not really been reported like that. TL: I couldn’t agree more Roger, we’ve been in the middle ground exactly, we...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...public knowledge and it wasn’t until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when naturalists began making regular exploratory voyages to the far corners of the globe, that the first scientific observations of how biodiversity varies over the face of the Earth were made. [Greenland vs BCI field photographs] Figure 1. Field photographs of the vegetation growing in...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...publications, which all tend to be displayed very formally and are mostly restricted to the final results. As teachers we need to ensure that we are very aware of all the processes of mathematics and so we must always attempt to know what our students are visualising. Activity 4: Further exploration Click 'View document' below to read Mathematics books for teachers View...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...publications. Professor Jones thinks that the relaxing of natural selection in the developed world and the fact that families these days have more or less the same number of offspring means that human evolution has effectively stopped. On the idea that human evolution might have stopped: "I really just know about snails, and the beauty of evolution is that it gives...
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...public for their immediate use or for repurposing according to the users’ needs. This fast-paced Short History of English , for example, was loaded onto YouTube by The Open University in 2011. The History of English in 10 Minutes Chapter Two, the Norman Conquest, or Excuse My English. 1066. True to his name, William the Conqueror invades England, bringing new concepts...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...Publications Ltd. Vogler, P., Crivello, G. a Woodhead, M. (2008) Early Childhood Transitions Research: A Review of Concepts, Theory and Practice, Yr Hag, Sefydliad Bernard van Leer...Datblygu a rheoli cydberthnasau: Cydnabyddiaethau - Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs hwn am ddim gan Isobel Shelton a Sue McKeogh (tiwtoriaid staff yn Y Brifysgol Agored). Gwnaed cyfraniadau gan Katie...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...public discourse about biofuels but actually much of it is not very correct in some way because it - the discourse - tries to treat it as though it's a single subject but actually there's many different subjects. For example, there's many ways to produce ethanol. Some are environmentally positive. Some may be environmentally negative. And so inevitably in these...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs