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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...techniques for community police officers, other community-based public service professionals and members of community groups working to solve problems collaboratively and creatively. It examines some of the ways which OU specialists in creative problem solving recommend to tackle difficult problems, and how to implement them in a community setting...This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...techniques from each stage of the engineering design cycle, to include the following: physical modelling; mathematical modelling; iteration; use of reference data; refining an engineering specification identify when models are likely to be useful and when they are no longer valid recognise and distinguish between the following technical terms: differential equation;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...technique to knock out PolQ in cancer cells, which wouldn’t be suitable for using in patients. So would it be tricky to develop a drug to block PolQ? “As drug targets go, this polymerase has a lot going for it. I think the challenge now – and I think it’s an exciting one – is whether drugs can be developed against it. There are chemicals that can do it, but...
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Article 5 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...technique. What we did is to develop a model which imitates the ice sheet model. A model-model if you like, but for clarity we call it an emulator instead. So this emulator uses the original ice sheet model runs to learn how it behaves and can then be used to make sea level predictions on its own. Instead of 15 dice rolls we can now emulate thousands of them and can come...
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Article 10 mins
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...technique, to anticipate the questions she might be asked and work through her past positions to think of examples of her competencies (reconfiguring resources). One of the companies at which Jan had an interview calls her some days afterwards because an applicant did not take up their post and offers Jan a job, which is in a different location to the one she applied for....
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Article 10 mins
The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...technique was developed to apply the dye to cotton fabrics and soon everyone was using it. It was a sensation. French Empress Eugénie wore a dress dyed with mauve, and it became one of Queen Victoria’s favourite colours. From 1881–1901, even British ‘penny lilac’ postage stamps were coloured mauve. ‘penny lilac’ In 1874, Perkin sold his business and retired...
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Article 10 mins
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...techniques. When you apply this methodology, you start to see small stories appear. Many of them appear in the pages of newspapers past as fillers, those ‘and finally’ bits aimed at amusing or shocking the reader. In themselves, they often offer us little in terms of analysis and commentary but, stitched together, patterns begin to emerge. [Clipping from the North...
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Article 5 mins
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...techniques. And the university faces its own challenges as it it navigates a difficult funding environment and takes significant risks on new ventures like FutureLearn. But any reformer seeking to serve large numbers of nontraditional students effectively would be remiss not to pay close attention to the OU’s pioneering model. This article was originally published on...
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Article 15 mins