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Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...work? What is antibiotic resistance? Why is it a problem? What can we do about it?...Have you ever been prescribed a course of antibiotics by your doctor to treat a bacterial infection? Did you wonder how they worked? It’s likely that, provided you completed the course prescribed by your doctor, the antibiotics successfully treated your infection. But what if the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges when buying drinks and snacks in an Italian café understand some customs relating to Italian cafés begin to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...work as well as your academic work. There are quizzes to evaluate your learning as you progress through the course. Many of the resources are from sources from across the globe, reflecting the significance of simulation and digital simulation within healthcare practice education. This free course is related to the Open University qualification R39 BSc (Honours)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...working with the PMA2020 and will integrate the data into national monitoring and evaluation systems. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director and under-secretary-general of the United Nations, tells SciDev.Net that governments and all partners in reproductive health need to provide information and access to voluntary family planning to all people of reproductive age....
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Article 5 mins
Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...working in the area when the idea for an explanatory video came up. He explained the importance of these hand signs: While many visitors quickly learn the standard “what now?” sign, it is easy to miss the dozens of diverse hand signals being subtly exchanged in conversation. As in all languages, some elements are traditional and others are recent innovations… hand...
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Article 10 mins
When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...works pretty well in this case, because we have only three companies, and Green’s slope is gentle enough that it doesn’t distort our view of Blue. If, however, we had more companies to track, it’s a good bet that at least one of them would look worse than it is because of the tilted baseline problem. The solution to this problem is to avoid the sexy stacked area...
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Article 5 mins
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...this sort of vegetation,” he points out. Lucíola Lannes, also a biologist, at the engineering faculty of São Paulo State University in Brazil, says: “the work shows that carbon dioxide mitigation policies that favour fire suppressions cannot be a priority conservation policy in El Cerrado”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...works of art, filmed in a mind-boggling range of locations, in response to Kenneth Clark's original Civilisation of 1969. Tonight's episode was presented by Simon Schama, who will host five episodes, but there will also be two each presented by Mary Beard and David Olusoga. Along the way the OU has been a partner on the program, and Gill Perry and I have been providing...
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Activity 5 mins