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OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old
Education & Development

OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old

...education and higher-level skills. Our OpenLearn Champions help to inspire a love of learning and support adults across Wales to develop skills, raise their confidence and explore what OpenLearn and OpenLearn Wales has to offer...well over 1,000 free courses! On OpenLearn you can find a range of courses aimed at improving employability skills, as well as science and...
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Article 10 mins
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...technological changes which characterised the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Cities in the western world were expanding. This urbanisation called for a new approach to building- new technologies would have to be embraced, offering cheaper, more efficient means of satisfying a larger population and a growing number of industrial clients. In the...
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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...Education and Mathematics...Working on your own mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect in depth on aspects of mathematics learning, whether personally directly concerned with mathematics teaching or simply interested in issues of mathematics education examine established views about existing practice in a critical way...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...technology standards/targets is extremely welcome. It is exactly where we should/could have been in 1997 with the Kyoto Protocol. There was a chance back then to set IEA Technology Collaboration Programme-type technology Earth Shots (for instance, to double the on-road fuel efficiency of automobiles within 15 years). Instead, the design architecture around the UNFCCC was...
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TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...Technology, he claims, will get us out of this. However, in common with Patricia Fara’s review, I believe that scientific enquiry and its technological consequences are not necessarily “progressive” at all. “Progress” is a huge contributor to the crisis we face: it is the positive image that Western powers have invoked in order to justify colonialism,...
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Article 10 mins
Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...technology in cinematography combined with breath-taking special effects, the recent superhero movie Deadpool brought to life one of these categories, altered humans. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary having being transformed into Deadpool by evil scientist Ajax. Demonstrating further that the superhero phenomena is...
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Article 15 mins
Get in touch
Education & Development

Get in touch

...educators, home-educated young people, practitioners and others interested in home education...Registered OpenLearn users can vote in the poll above (log in to see it if you haven't done so already). The resources cover a range of topics including ones aimed at specific knowledge of neurodiversity, inclusive practice and children’s development and those targeted at...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...educational system have all been cited as reasons for Germany’s chemical industry outstripping that of Britain. By 1913, Germany was exporting about 135 000 tonnes of dyes compared to Britain’s 5 000 tonnes. At the outbreak of the First World War, the only khaki dye available for British army uniforms was manufactured in Germany and had to be imported secretly!...
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