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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...courses. History The English discovery of Barbados occurred in 1625 and it was settled in 1627. I use ‘discover’ in the context of England discovering the island, as opposed to it being discovered as an island. Despite evidence of indigenous populations having been present in Barbados in the past, including Caribs and Arawaks, a visit by the Portuguese in 1536...
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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...information and advice has been sourced and repurposed from the following organisations: National Health Service (NHS), The Open University and Psychology Today. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...course the very concept of ‘public health’ has multiple meanings. A relatively uncontroversial starting definition is that public health is: …the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society This definition contains the idea of collective efforts furthering the health of a population and that...
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...course, article pages). We have conducted a manual survey of the site for video transcripts and set up a system report for alternative text for images. We have also conducted an automated preliminary sample audit of 23 popular and important pages of the site. The latest testing of this website involved using the Accessibility Compliance Toolkit (ACT) which is an internal...
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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

...course took an interdisciplinary approach to integrate multiple disciplines and expose students to the Project Based Learning (PBL) approach with hands-on, project-based learning sessions conducted at FabLab Nepal. The goal was to expose children that had only experienced a traditional, theoretical and text-based way of learning to playfulness and experiential learning,...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...courses, and he wrote the essence of being a physicist is knowing which approximations to make. And so whenever we’re seeking to understand something, you need to tease out what are the important things that are influencing this. Because you can’t possibly hope to create a replica of the whole universe because you’d need the whole universe to do it and you...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...course with the COVID-19 Pandemic, home has become a formal workplace for millions of women workers in different and multiple ways from how this was imagined in the past). The distinction between those workplaces which are characterised as locales of paid employment and places and locations of unpaid work – primarily in the home or a home-setting of others such as...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Germans have not had their just credit for the… what at that time looked like an incredibly quixotic policy of demanding a million solar roofs in cloudy Germany, but shortly after that policy I was in California talking to a venture capitalist who said, ‘OK, we can see a market here that’s big enough, we’re going to chuck a lot of money at this.’ And then we saw...
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