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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...What do you think makes a good citizen? Does it sometimes necessitate the questioning and challenging of laws and customs? Question: Does this installation make you think differently about citizenship? If you’re interested in these kinds of debates, you might be interested in The Open University course Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world....
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Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?
Nature & Environment

Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?

...course, many animals can create hybrids without presenting a threat, but what makes slugs different – and these hybrids so worrying – is their interesting and deviant sex lives. Slugs are hermaphrodites, which means the same individual exists as both sexes; they first develop as males, before experiencing a true hermaphrodite phase to become female. This means they...
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Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...the level 2 module DST206 ‘Environment: Sharing a dynamic planet’ develops understanding of some of these ideas further. You can find out more here: http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/dst206 If you would like to find out more about the United Kingdom National Ecosystem Assessment (UKNEA) information is available on their website here: http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...course, you will need to properly reference these wider sources. As well as referencing make sure you acknowledge diagrams, visuals in the text (e.g. ‘ Fig 1 illustrates how the economic value changes over the decade’); don’t just add them in as an afterthought! Thinking differently about digital sources Today we may feel overwhelmed by digital content. A search...
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Heritage in war
History & The Arts

Heritage in war

...course of action an alternative if it would prevent damage to cultural property, but increase the risk of casualties? [The image was taken during the war in 1992 in Sarajevo in the partially destroyed National Library. The cello player is local musician Vedran Smailović. ] The partially destroyed National Library in Sarajevo, 1992 Finally, there is the issue of what to...
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The monster has wings: Should we be worried about youth consumption of energy drinks?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The monster has wings: Should we be worried about youth consumption of energy drinks?

...course, legislation to prevent the sales of energy drinks to under 16’s would be helpful. But the marketing of these drinks to young people through computer games and their association with sports is also a much wider issue. Far reaching discussions are needed about the direct and indirect marketing of these drinks (and other food and drinks) through multiple platforms...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...course, there was a hope and confidence in a new dawn of peace, but so were there legitimate opponents and doubters – would the IRA really decommission their weapons? Would the prisoners who were to be released within two years, really resist a return to violence? Would the vague policing reforms, promised through what only later became the Patten Commission, disband or...
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Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...courses and qualifications What are rich pictures? How to draw rich pictures Using the Working for Water Programme (WWP) case study... Diagram guidelines Purpose Rich pictures were originally developed as part of Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 1981; Checkland and Scholes, 1990; Checkland and Poulter, 2020). Their purpose is to gather in one...
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