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How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...climate change left no room for doubt that urgent action was needed on carbon emissions. ANDREW SIMMS Each one of these independently is enough to cause a scale of upheaval the likes of which, to see some sort of comparison, we’d have to look back to the Great Depression of the 1930s. What we’re worried about is that the combination of all three happening...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...climate change – so much so that a word has emerged to describe the phenomenon: ‘greenwashing’. ‘Racewashing’ is also a real phenomenon, and many of you will be able to point to major institutions you feel promise change but fail to deliver. This is why it is important that leadership stays the course and does not drift away, even as people’s attention and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the problem down. Systems thinking characteristically moves one's focus in the opposite direction,...
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...climate change and biodiversity. This includes such specifics as the amount and type of travel, the nature of the food at meetings and dissemination events, and more fundamental questions about the actual research, for example, and the purposes for which it is undertaken.’ In the preface to the 5th edition of the BERA ethical guidelines for educational research, the...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the problem down. Systems thinking characteristically moves one's focus in the opposite direction,...
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...changes in the price of a single item and for two or more different items. Section 5 looks at the UK’s Retail Prices Index (RPI) and Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which measure changes in prices over time. (This section is longer than all the other sections, so you should plan your study time accordingly.) This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...climate change the number of grandparents with a favourite grandchild. A survey is a method of collecting data. But once you’ve collected the data, it needs to be organised and displayed in a way that’s easy to understand. This is something that’s straightforward to do with discrete data – that is, data made up of things that are separate and can be counted. For...
Free course 48 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...Climatic change Genetically modified crops and produce Increased risk of epidemics and disease (AIDS, BSE, SARS and so on) through more mobile human and animal populations Ecological damage; reliance on energy sources that are effectively non-renewable. Political European Union World Trade Organisation Increased regulation Regional resurgence Ethnic conflict, nationalism...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs