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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...physical letter or watching a movie at home vs venturing out to a large, out-of-town cinema complex, tricks us into thinking the digital option is inconsequential in comparison. Indeed, watching a movie at home likely contributes to less carbon than hopping in a conventional car and driving to a specially constructed large building, where you might be tempted to consume...
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Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...Physical appearance...Starting with psychology: 4.3 Proximity and familiarity - Proximity means geographical closeness. An obvious and basic requirement for forming a relationship is that the people involved need to be geographically close enough to have opportunities to interact with each other. You may find a certain film star very attractive but if you never get the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...physically large and highly expensive equipment of the 1950s to the omnipresent networks and computer-based devices which our digital lives are founded on today. This section will: compare the development of the computer to the development of the telephone describe some of the digital technologies that form an integral part of many people’s lives introduce the term...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...physical safety away from their families to live with people who were unknown to them. In many cases, children’s experiences had a negative effect on their emotional development and on their mental health. In order to see the connection between challenging life events and how this impacts on children’s mental health, in the next section you’ll read about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the future...This course explores how environmental and social factors interact to cause wildfires and shows why these interactions need to be considered when preparing for future wildfires....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...physical attributes were a gift to satirists of the late eighteenth century, who riffed delightedly on the graphic and semantic associations of this new and somewhat unlikely technology. Furthermore, in the first few decades of ballooning, its utility was unclear. Although flight had been achieved, the power to navigate had not, so balloons could not be used as aerial...
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Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...physically and emotionally, the menstrual cycle can be divided into four distinct stages with each having significantly different hormonal profiles: The start of the cycle is known as the early follicular phase, when oestrogen and progesterone, the two main hormones of the cycle, are both low. The first day of the cycle is the first day of bleeding (known as the period or...
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Article 15 mins
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...physical world can connect to the internet how the internet has already changed our lives where we (the people) fit in with the evolving internet where we (the people) fit in with the evolving internet. Before you start, The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations of the course. Your input will...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs