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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is James Honeybourne, I am an Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. Wildlife television: What got you started? I have always had a passion for wildlife and I was very lucky, when I was 18 I went to Africa to see my uncle, who was living there and he introduced me to a film crew and I just thought it was...
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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...project to create a book he had agreed I should write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...project is feasible. Start by specifying the physical or digital context of your research. For example, is it in a classroom, lab, health, social care setting or in the field? Will it be conducted online, offline, or both? Then, outline your research methodology, keeping in mind that your research questions will influence the methodology you choose. You will want to...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...project got underway at Virginia Tech in 2008, and the sequence of a hen named Nici was published in 2010. Nici means “Nicholas inbred,” after famed turkey farmer George Nicholas who, at Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms in Sonoma, California, turned the wild bird into today’s barely recognizable top-heavy product of extreme artificial selection. Conventional...
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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...Introduction - This course looks at the role of innovation in the development of industries and considers how production costs change as sales increase and as new technology is introduced into the production process. It looks at the relation between consumer demand for a good and that good's price, and at how the relation between output and production costs in different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...Introduction - What makes us who we are? This course will look at a number of different explanations that psychologists put forward in their attempts to understand why people feel, think and behave the way they do. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Psychology & Counselling This course is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru. Tell us what...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...Project I’m Mary Colwell and I am a producer in Natural History Unit Radio. I also do a lot of other freelance work outside radio, outside the BBC. How I got started… Interested in the natural world, very definitely. I used to go for long walks in the Peak District with my dad and we always took a geology hammer and one day we broke open a piece of limestone and...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...project. This encompassed planned time for reading aloud, independent reading, and book talk, ‘inside-text talk’ and recommendations, all in the context of a social reading environment. Such practice is dependent upon teachers’ knowledge of texts and their children as readers and was seen to be effective in motivating young readers and developing their autonomy and...
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