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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 80%. The extra helping of woodland and...
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Article 10 mins
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...simple colleagues can blossom into close friendships. Similarly, being collegial can serve as a critical way to cope with the stresses of the office and the job. Yet this can also create a range of unnecessary complications. Tim Bowler explores these themes in his BBC article “Should you socialise with your colleagues outside work?”. As mentioned above, a significant...
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Article 5 mins
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...simple method for amplifying only specific parts of a DNA sequence. Mullis demonstrated that amplification of specific DNA sequences could be achieved by using a pair of short nucleotide chains known as primers. The primers are designed to bind solely to the nucleobase sequences within the DNA region of interest. [Image of scientist placing a strip of eight PCR tubes,...
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Article 10 mins
Second-order differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Second-order differential equations

...simple forms of right-hand-side function obtain the general solution of an inhomogeneous linear constant-coefficient second-order differential equation by combining its complementary function with a particular integral use the general solution together with a pair of initial or boundary conditions to obtain, when possible, a particular solution of a linear
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...simple analysis of your own. And you’ll also get to grips with how an understanding of language structure can help you to be creative and playful with language. Armed with this new knowledge, you’ll be able to explain why advertising works, and why jokes are funny! Aimed at complete beginners, no knowledge of grammar has been assumed in this course. You’ll start at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The stories behind our streets
Society, Politics & Law

The stories behind our streets

...code’ lottery suggests. Places carry connotations about whether or not they are desirable places to live and they suggest the kinds of people who might live there. Children learn from playing Monopoly that it's far more desirable to own property on Mayfair than it is to own property on the Old Kent Road. The Open University has been working with the BBC on two series,...
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Activity 5 mins
Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...Codes of Practice and Conduct (Codes) recognises how factors such as bias and uncertainty of measurement can undermine the reliability of evidence. Mitigation of these types of issues can vary between the different disciplines of forensics. For example, some would argue uncertainty of measurement is not relevant to digital forensics, where there is little measurement...
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Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...simple, but effective drawing technique by way of a hands-on activity. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course U101Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century...Design thinking: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: have an awareness of how design thinking can be applied in a wide range of contexts,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs