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Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...University course T213 Energy and Sustainability. ...Transport and Sustainability: Introduction - Transport has considerable environmental impacts. It creates problems of urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. There is also the problem of determining who is the most important urban road user; the private car, public road transport, or cyclists and pedestrians....
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...universally. Non-mammals can generate body heat, for example a python and some species of fish, such as tuna. A reptile basking in the sun can become as warm to the touch as a mammal and its lethal temperature may be higher than that of many mammals. If you’ve encountered a mammal during hibernation – perhaps a cautious investigation of a hedgehog – you’ll...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...University by visiting our online prospectus. If you are new to university study, you may be interested in our Access Courses or Certificates. What’s new from OpenLearn? Sign up to our newsletter or view a sample. For reference, full URLs to pages listed above: OpenLearn – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses Visiting our online prospectus – www.open.ac.uk/ courses...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...University course BG020 Commercial awareness...Commercial awareness: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what an organisation exists to do: the value it creates appreciate a personal position within the organisation and how others relate to it relate the concept of a value chain to a personal working context, whilst...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...University. It can also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of teachers. The authors have many years’ experience of teaching mathematics in the classroom and in Initial and Continuing Teacher Education...This free course, Teaching mathematics, has been designed for non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14 year olds, teaching...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...guide to how temperatures averaged across the whole hemisphere changed during the course of the last 1000 years. Like the instrumental record (shown in red), the proxy record includes annual data and a smoothed curve that brings out variability on a time-scale of several decades. The grey region is the 95% confidence range in the annual data. Note that the uncertainty is...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...university types perhaps, and I believe that these programmes were shown on university syllabuses, if that’s a word. So hopefully that did influence people and that was a long time ago, it was like 25, 30 years’ ago, so since that time through all the other landmark series, that’s probably had the most impact. It had the advantage too of course of having animals...
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...University of Cambridge degree in natural science. He has been producing and presenting natural history programmes for the BBC since the 1950s, when he made his first series Zoo Quest. The programme he is most proud of and best known for is the landmark series Life on Earth, which he wrote and presented, and which was first broadcast on the BBC in 1979. Since then he has...