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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...social and environmental aspects that are often less obvious. One such characteristic is what is known as the digital carbon footprint. The term encapsulates the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions attributable to the digital products and services we purchase, use, and dispose of. The intangibility of the digital services we rely on has lured us into a false sense...
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...social policy and practice. About the presentations These presentations were given as part of Inequalities and Solidarities: The impact of Covid in Wales, part of the OpenTalks series of events run by The Open University in Wales. The event took place on Wednesday 4 May 2022. See also [Covid Chronicles from the Margins logo] Covid Chronicles from the Margins investigates...
Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...socially constructed element in our life. Racial formation theory (Omi and Winant, 2014) has posited the existence of individual and global differences in presenting race and ethnicity in learning institutions. The concepts race and ethnicity in a higher educational context cannot be fully understood without exploring the institutional structural system used to address...
Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities

...sensory processing differences weight loss nutritional deficiencies significant psycho-social implications – for example, the child might be unable to eat in the same room as the rest of their family or in the dinner hall at school because they find the smell of the food overwhelming a need for nutritional supplements or tube-feeding. Children with ARFID may have a strong aversion to new food and anxiety around even ......
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined stickleback, and I did my doctorate on this fish. The essence of comparative ethology was that it was a comparatively new movement at the time and it was in opposition to animal psychology. I say...
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Languages

Describing language

...works and it is a useful starting point if you wish to study languages and/or applied linguistics at The Open University...Do you know the difference between a noun and an adjective? Do you know why we say indefatigable but not unfluffabluable? Would you like to? In this course you’ll go on a whistle-stop tour of all the key components of language. You’ll learn how to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third session focuses on learning grammar and practising translation and presents you with different sample activities in French, German, Spanish and English to support your learning and teaching in these areas with OMT. Session 4 draws this course to a conclusion by demonstrating when and how OMT can be...
The Mill on the Floss
History & The Arts

The Mill on the Floss

...work was of the German writer Goethe. Eliot’s only surviving hand-written manuscript resides in the British Library. It reveals a strikingly neat set of volumes with little corrections except from subtle indications in the author’s handwriting which divulge the true extent of the emotional toll of the book’s denouement on its writer. Video: The real places that...