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Colour fastness
Money & Business

Colour fastness

...Institute BSI through the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). To test the dyed and finished t-shirt for its wash fastness a sample of the fabric is taken and sewn together with a piece of fabric called a multifibre strip. This fabric is specially engineered and specified in the standard to always be the same. It contains the following fibres Wool, Acrylic, Polyester,...
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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...Institute for Apprenticeships has approved a standard for a Systems Thinking Practitioner who ‘supports decision-makers in strategic and leadership roles to understand and address complex and sometimes even ‘wicked’ problems through provision of expert systemic analysis, advice and facilitation’. We at the OU have been teaching and researching systems thinking in...
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What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...institution, the hub will not only work as showcase for academic research and some of the university's high-quality teaching in this area, but also provide a necessary and important source of knowledge for this organisation as well as for the general public. These resources will help people to understand both historic and contemporary ideas of race and racism and how...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...institutions to serve not only their formal students, but non-formal learners who may otherwise have been excluded from formal education. For OpenLearn, this resulted in the commissioning of a range of 'soft skills' and basic skills mastery courses to bolster both our own students' employability and core skills, and anyone else who found these materials online. Further,...
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Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...institutions? How can resources be managed in ways that are equitable and fair? How do we decide what ‘good change’ might look like and how can it be achieved? Such challenges provoke deep questioning. They unsettle as well as promote alternative visions of what we mean by development and how it might be pursued. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the...
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Neurodivergence and birth trauma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and birth trauma

...et al., 2013). Brain damage: Cerebral palsy (CP), caused by brain damage or malformation of the brain during growth in utero, can be considered a result of a traumatic birth. CP sometimes occurs as a result of head trauma during delivery, where there may be decreased oxygen supply as mentioned above, or medical error during birth; essentially, a difficult birth can lead...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...institutions. By taking a critical perspective, the authors deliberately situate this usage within the various power structures that exist within and across the contemporary academe. These chapters navigate away from visions of the utopic or dystopic university of the future to explore what is happening in the here and now, in what Neil Selwyn (2014) has referred to as...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...higher education studies or discover and pursue their interests (Thapa, 2015; Mottaleb et al., 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns further exacerbated the discrepancy between private and public school children due to the requirement of online learning platforms unavailable to CG schools and students (Dawadi et al., 2020; Devkota, 2021). Hence, intervention in the post-pandemic period was seen as ......
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