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Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course in this start-of-course survey. We welcome your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...Introduction - In this free course, The family at the centre of early learning, you will explore the effect of family on children’s early development. The eminent child psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner remarked, ‘every child needs an adult who is crazy about him (or her) in order to grow up’ (Bronfenbrenner, cited in Penn, 2008, p. 46). Such key adults are often...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...projections that non-whites will outnumber whites in the next 30 years. Concurso Nacional de Deletreo en Español had 11 contestants in its first year. In the past it was hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the spelling bee this year, there are 27 students, representing nine states: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas and...
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Article 5 mins
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...Projects: the Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (1975). Drawing on textual primary sources, she wrote a political and cultural account that might help us to make sense of the Cambridge Group’s recent figures. Their findings might even re-ignite an old debate, about the economic consequences of the Reformation. The reign of Elizabeth was not long...
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Article 10 mins
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...Project Fear’. This may prove to have tragic consequences since it appears increasingly clear that the majority of economic forecasters were in fact correct in their broad assessments of the likely implications of Brexit for sterling, real wages, investment and long-term growth rates, as the Bank of England Governor and the Centre for European Reform have recently...
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Article 10 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...projected 5%%u201395% probability intervals for Antarctic sea-level contributions are shown with and without the original MICI representation. RCP 8.5,RCP 4.5 and RCP 2.6 represent very high, intermediate and very low greenhouse gas emission scenarios, respectively. Figure reproduced from Edwards et al. 2019. To summarize, the only reason for the 2016 study to predict...
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Article 10 mins
The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...project, as shown by ongoing discussions around membership of the single market and the customs union. Not only did we not know the answers to such questions at the time of the original referendum, but the vast majority of people couldn’t have fully understood the questions. What really should have appeared on the ballot in 2016 was a series of questions: do you want to...
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Article 10 mins
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...Project [Engraving depicting a pin factory in the 1760s. ] Engraving depicting a pin factory in the 1760s. From Smith’s life story, it is not immediately obvious why he became such an iconic figure of modern economics. He led a comfortable, quiet, studious life, whose only notable adventure was a 2-year stay in France. It is his two books, rather than his acts, that...
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Article 10 mins