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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...data and how to convert data from one form to another. For example, telescopes collect data on spectra and the brightness of celestial bodies; these data are converted to numbers that are represented by images on a screen and stored in large data files. I had to extract numerical information from those images, convert that into knowledge about the physical ......
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...data already predicts that we will be half a century late for the first of the 2030 education targets...[Globe and a bachelor's hat cartoon, society matters] Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still...
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...data, why doesn’t the Department for Education? But it goes deeper. After reading lots of books about Islam in 2016 to try and better understand my Muslim students, I tried to ‘get down with the kids’ by listening to Camden-based rap artist Akala. I couldn’t get along with the music, but I read his book Natives. I haven’t been totally ignorant of Britain’s...
How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with real others, quasi-dialogues with invisible others, and...
Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former works; the latter exploits workers, profiting from their labour. But even if this is still the big picture, the nature of work, and who does it—women, men, young or old—has certainly changed since Marx’s time. We'd like...
Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...analysis of your choices and a map of how your opinions compare to different philosophers through the ages. Are you ready to turn the first page? If so, select the image below to open the book... [Black and white illustration of a castle surrounded by trees with a tower in the centre. Dot like dashes create a sea around the island the castle is on top of.] Open the book...
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...data, and organising and representing information in different ways finding the mean, median and range of a group of numbers. Finding the mean from grouped data using data to assess the likelihood of an outcome and expressing this in different forms working with area, perimeter and volume, scale drawings and plans...Session 4: Shape and space: 8 Next steps - Take your...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...Analysis, I’ve made a start by searching the world’s languages for words relating to love that don’t exist in English. Most of us use the word love fairly liberally. I use it for the deep ardour, care and respect I have for my wife. But I will also call upon it to describe the unshakeable bonds of kinship and history I share with my family, and the connections and...