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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...children considering the resolution an attack on American culture and some African Americans considering it an orchestrated effort to continue to perpetuate the marginalisation of African American children. Similar racial tensions were felt in England with regards to Multicultural London English (MLE). MLE is best defined as a multiethnolect with varying output of...
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...children, this could be expressed as a percentage: 25% of the village population are children; or as a ratio: one in every four people is a child or there is 1 child for every three adults; or a proportion: the proportion of children in the village population is a quarter. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Mathematics...Ratio, proportion and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...researchers the coupled evolution of life and planet Earth, develops and uses Earth system models, and studies the prospects for early warning of climate tipping points. His work won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award...
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...researchers who are studying what do we know about how people learn. The software engineers who are looking at what are the affordances of the technology, the human computer interaction experts who look at the interface between humans and computers, and the domain experts, the faculty who teach statistics, chemistry, philosophy. This is not just about online courseware....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...research. There is no right answer to this activity. In real research, the true answer isn’t always known. The key to estimating the true answer is statistics: the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of numerical data. Scientists use a variety of statistical techniques to analyse data and estimate their uncertainty about the results. The point is, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...research were asked to do the following task, which you should also try out. Take five minutes to ‘free-write’ on the subject of your relationship to a familiar place (make it an outdoor place, from the past or present). A free-write means writing spontaneously with minimum hesitation or revision. Now reflect on the following three questions: Describe your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...Children of God, pictured with their Jesus Bus, spreading The Gospel in Brighton, 1971. Activity 2 Timing: Allow approximately 25 minutes How might Figures 1, 2 and 3 display three aspects of changes in religion during the Sixties? Discussion The first is of the demolition of a church building in Chesterfield, England, around 1968. The picture is evidence of a wider...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...children and communicating to the class teacher which were the exceptional children that he or she had to look out for over the coming year. A year later the inspector returned to the schools in the trial and discovered that the children identified in the earlier tests had indeed excelled and were regarded as being exceptionally able by the teachers involved. However the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs