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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...data we need has to be stored in a variable. Translating Python to English, the assignment states ‘let result be the sum of 3 and 7’. The second instruction, print, prints some text on the screen, followed by the computed result. Note the following: the comma separates the two things to be printed, in the same way we use commas in English to enumerate two, three, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...Data collection on cancer rates in China have improved over recent years (Chen et al., 2016) and show that lung cancer is the most common cancer causing death. However, a considerable amount of evidence needs to be gathered before some hazardous chemical in the environment can be shown unequivocally to be the cause of increased cancers. Activity 1 Pathways for hazardous...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...data he had collected. In doing so, Humboldt turned his back on the prevalent religious explanations for phenomena seen in nature and instead sought process-based scientific explanations for the patterns he saw in his observations. Such a quantitative approach allowed him to investigate how Earth’s surface temperature varies with height, how heat and material is...
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Article 20 mins
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...analysis and cause and effect diagrams to explore problem areas generate simple matrix diagrams to relate objectives to strategies name and describe the chief roles various people can assume relating to proposals and projects relate all these roles to the process of organisational planning explain different views of quality and show that a structured approach to planning...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Communication in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication in health and social care

...analysis of interpersonal relationships in care work. This material forms part of The Open University course K309 Communication in health and social care... Communication in health and social care A short introduction to this album Relationships in two settings Using two locations in the West Midlands, interpersonal relations are analysed in the context of everyday...
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Audio 2 hrs 30 mins
60-Second Adventures in Economics
Society, Politics & Law

60-Second Adventures in Economics

...analysis became popular the relationship has changed. The Principle of Comparative Advantage David Ricardo's famous economic model, predicts that if there are just two countries and two products both can be better off if they specialise and trade in the thing they’re relatively best at. The Impossible Trinity The Impossible Trinity or 'trilemma' suggests that it is...
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Audio 8 mins
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...analysis. Feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser critiques the white middle-class boundaries of Habermas’ definition. She describes second wave feminist activists’ aim to make private matters public in order to politicise them by pressuring policymakers into distributing public resources to underserved people. Such campaigns included demands for maternity leave, childcare,...
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Article 10 mins
Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...data for companies seeking to influence national politics. Characteristics of fake images Fake images can be defined differently. For the purpose of this article, I consider fake images as those that have been manipulated such that they can deceive people in believing something untrue. These images usually feature things, scenes or people’s behaviours that are...
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Article 10 mins