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World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration
Nature & Environment

World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration

...course on a rainy day, you could sit with your mobile/laptop/tablet and explore the environment virtually via the OU’s learning materials and engaging virtual lab such as The Open Science Laboratory. Further resources UNEP – Health Environment, Healthy People: Thematic report Ministerial policy review session Second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly...
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...course, this spectacular act of self-harming is more like a murder-suicide in that the damage done will not be contained to Britain and affect the rest of the world in ways that we cannot yet know but that look distinctly unpleasant for Europe and “the West”: With a single vote, England just screwed us all https://t.co/1RT6LjEAjp — Patrick Park (@patricktpark) June...
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Rio 2016: Aisuluu Tynybekova - not quite a medalist; still a national hero
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Aisuluu Tynybekova - not quite a medalist; still a national hero

...course they knew! The trainers just wanted to seize a win. At any cost! We are disgraced in front of the whole world! The head of the country's state sport agency, which says it will appeal Artykov's doping cherge, was one of the few public figures to criticize Tynybekova. He claimed that she “gave victory away” in her duel with Malik, a comment that caused anger on...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...course, interviews can also be properly done and lead to solid understandings of social matters. Ethnographic methods have been used to challenge stereotypes and prejudices but also to further colonial oppression. Similarly, statistical methods of investigation do not only create positivistic knowledge for regressive or conservative ends; they can be used to better...
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What is emotive language and why is it used?
History & The Arts

What is emotive language and why is it used?

...courses and qualifications. [Talking with a forked tongue? A snake] Speaking with a forked tongue? Ever wanted to convince an audience of your point of view – maybe at an office presentation, or even over a beer with friends – but found yourself lost for the right way to put it? OpenLearn has joined with philosopher Nigel Warburton to grapple with the nuts and bolts...
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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...courses and qualifications [British nurse taking older man's blood pressure in nurse's office] Forging relationships We all can probably recount our personal experiences of receiving some form of nursing care. This might have been as a patient in hospital, in a community or doctor’s clinic or in some other kind of health service provision. The personal relationships we...
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Upset forging
Science, Maths & Technology

Upset forging

...courses and qualifications Horizontal forging [Diagram to demonstrate 'Upset forging' - see article] [Diagram to demonstrate 'Upset forging' - see article] Horizontal forging machines increase the cross-sectional area of a portion of the bar. Forgings are produced while still attached to the ends of the bar stock. The length of bar to be headed or upset is heated...
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Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...courses Digital technologies such as WhatsApp and other messaging apps are now deeply embedded into many people’s daily lives. Mobile conversations interweave in complex ways with offline activities, interrupting and being interrupted by what we’re doing in the real world. Phone messaging adds another layering to our already busy lifestyles, both facilitating offline...
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