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Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland...Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. See here how it is done on the Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway near Belfast. Video Transcript AIDAN CREAN: There’s many many...
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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...work so learners need to be able to communicate effectively with each other when speaking. Group work can provide practice and good learning experiences but only if learners are able to explore ideas constructively. This involves the following: - Starting and finishing discussions - Keeping the discussion relevant - Taking and giving turns - Putting forward and explaining...
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Classical studies: it's more than the words
History & The Arts

Classical studies: it's more than the words

...works of literature and history. As you explore the writings of Herodotus in the OpenLearn Collection, think about the issues raised below, summarised from those posed by the OU A219 Course team. Bookmark this article and come back to review the questions, once you have spent some time looking at the other resources and exploring the map. [Fragment from Herodotus'...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...working within what they call ‘the analytic tradition’. This is, unsurprisingly, a tradition that has used the techniques of analysis. Quite what counts as analysis is controversial, but one central method that has been used is the breaking down of complex concepts into simpler components. To take a typical philosophical example, one might start to wonder what...
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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...work environments is incredibly important for addressing gender inequalities. Academics working in Sweden, often put forward in media and popular culture as the place where gender equality is most advanced, tell us that simply “body counting” the number of women doesn’t mean that equality has been achieved. Cultural change takes a lot longer, if it can be achieved...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...work back to the time when there was no daughter, but only the parent, and this give us the age of the rock. This process is called ‘radiometric dating’. Uranium is not the only element used in radiometric dating, there are others too, and between them we have been able to produce hundreds of dates for events in the Earth’s history. Even before radiometric dating...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...work in Buxton’s brewery as ‘they love to drink, but I believe would fire your brewery for a lark as they did burn my wash houses’. Their behaviour would not have been viewed as resistance to their continued enslavement, but as part of the ‘war’ that many slave-owners saw themselves involved in, living in communities where Africans so vastly outnumbered them....
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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...working for the OU. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant, also from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science. It's Elementary: A Chemist's View This podcast explores life at The Open University's Department of Chemistry and Analytical Sciences. We meet Dr Sotiris Missalidis, whose research into chemistry has...
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