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Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...out more about the Use Cases and the activities and partners involved, visit the ICAERUS project website...Week 1: Discover the drone industry: 2 The drone industry and its growth - The civilian drone industry emerged in 2007, mainly because drones, originally developed for military purposes, started being used for aerial photography and video. Since that time, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...out a formula that expresses his displacement at any moment during his walk in terms of the time that he’s been walking. Differential calculus allows you to use this information to deduce his velocity (his rate of change of displacement) at any moment during his walk. In integral calculus, you carry out the opposite process to differential calculus. For example, suppose...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...out research into the peer effect. He found that encouraging a small number of children to take the meals had a larger knock-on effect: Almost 300,000 entitled children do not participate in the UK’s Free School Meals (FSM) programme, worth up to £400 per year. Welfare take-up can be deterred by stigma and lack of information. This paper uses a school-level dataset and...
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Article 5 mins
Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...out of 100,000 individuals in a population at any time (or 1 individual in 2,000). The value stating how many individuals in a population show a certain characteristic at a given time (e.g. are affected by a disease) is called prevalence. Some rare diseases only affect one or a handful of individuals worldwide, meaning that they are extremely rare. However, diseases like...
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Article 10 mins
How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...out for a walk, where and when this is possible and recommended. Regularity in our approach to all activities was always recommended by research as being very important. It is very crucial to create a routine that takes us from the morning to the evening, creating your own rhythm and sticking with it, if at all possible while making sure that we have planned our day in a...
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Video 10 mins
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...out about The Open University's Education courses. Digital badged courses, such as those on OpenLearn, have become a popular means of recognising achievement for learners, particularly in support of career development. Because they have been around for over ten years now, we know that they are used to recognise learning, to motivate, to provide a means of demonstrating...
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...out and the depth and content of the submissions. We are proud of the comradely way in which this truly historic discussion was conducted. The outcome of our consultations show very strong support among IRA Volunteers for the Sinn Fein peace strategy. There is also widespread concern about the failure of the two governments and the unionists to fully engage in the peace...
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England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...out...Transcript Battlefields are integral to ‘our nation’s story’. Battles determined the fate of individual kings, changed the country’s linguistic and cultural character, and defined our very identity. As such, the places where these clashes of arms took place are contested spaces whose meaning and significance – and even their location – is hotly debated...
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