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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...Q&A session on COVID-19 with experts from the OU STEM faculty, click here. • If you are interested in the numbers around COVID-19, such as the meaning for the various terms, the modelling that’s being used to obtain estimates, or the reliability of the statistics, then head over to ‘A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers’ by the Royal Statistical Society....
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Article 10 mins
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...little pieces of other rocks, stuck together with some kind of cement. Your igneous and metamorphic rocks will have the grains actually interlocking. And your metamorphic rocks might have some kind of alignment, but you'll often have to step back to see it. Good luck, and happy hunting! Like geology? Find out more with these FREE resources Study geo-sciences with the OU...
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Video 5 mins
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Students will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called marks)...This free course, Forensic science and fingerprints, covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Students will learn the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...becoming unwell because of an infection. This understanding was probably developed because of the attention that was given to the importance of handwashing during the pandemic. You may have found it interesting that he mentions how using a hand sanitiser dries his skin out, and to avoid this, he uses the hand washing station. If a child has eczema, or sensitive skin,...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...become apparent. These highly concentrated energy sources soon displaced wood, wind and water in the homes, industries and transport systems of the industrial nations. Today the fossil fuel trio of coal, oil and natural gas provides around 80% of the world’s energy. Concerns about the adverse environmental and social consequences of fossil fuel use have been voiced...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...becomes the main raw material for the foundry or the steelmaker. The steelmaker turns the raw iron into steel sheet or bar. These steel products then go on to become the raw material for other manufacturers producing the enormous variety of useful products we see all around us; motor vehicles, domestic white goods (washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), wire coat...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...become slightly addicted to that thrill. And ever since that moment, I've just kept pushing the boundaries slightly further, and kept knocking on the doors a little bit harder and taking no for an answer less and less. And there's a direct linear link between organising that little fashion show in Edinburgh and creating this big event, where we've brought Bill Clinton to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...become widely accepted over the past few decades. Ramage and Shipp (2009) provide an overview of systems traditions and the different approaches to systems thinking. Each of these four perspectives are forms of systems thinking, in that they all look at whole systems and seek to understand the relationship between the parts and the whole, but they use these ideas subtly...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs