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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...analysis of the exercise experience of female recreational runners’, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 14(2), pp. 69-82. Brown, P. R., Brown, W. J., Miller, Y. D. and Hansen, V. (2001) ‘Perceived constraints and social support for active leisure among mothers with young children’, Leisure Sciences, 23(3), pp. 131-144. Horne, J., Corr, S. and Earle, S....
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Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively mixture of videos, interactive exercises and readings, the course explores how the social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
OpenLearn supports Get Online Week
Education & Development

OpenLearn supports Get Online Week

...data to get connected. It has helped hundreds of thousands of people to get online for the first time and improve their digital skills...This content is associated with The Open University's Open degree qualification. [Get Online Week logo] OpenLearn is working with Good Things Foundation, the charity behind Get Online Week, to deliver a collection of introductory-level,...
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Make it Digital
Digital & Computing

Make it Digital

...interactives and free courses Learn more about our co-productions in the season Delve deeper... [Graphic of digital data ] [Image of computer code on a computer screen] [Business person working on keyboard against a technology background] [Image of a digital globe in a hand] [Padlock on a computer keyboard] [Image of architect working with an ipad] Our co-productions...
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Activity 5 mins
Space scientist: John Zarnecki
Science, Maths & Technology

Space scientist: John Zarnecki

...data one and a half billion kilometres away from Earth. Applying space technology on Earth How instruments devised to analyse the atmosphere on Mars are now being adapted to detect tuberculosis in Africa. International space research Using the internet to create a live observatory for students worldwide, and Zarnecki's dream to provide instruments for the next Chinese...
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Audio 21 mins
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...data collected from school leaders, for school leaders. The course explores and challenges the role of online learning across a broad range of issues and the way they influence strategy and individual practice. It is based around four main areas. Surrounding the framework are the cross-cutting themes of pedagogical innovation, flexibility and partnerships, resources and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...analysis of microfossils can provide data on seawater temperature and salinity (salt content), atmospheric CO2 and ocean circulation. Less common deposits of coarse debris can point to the break up of ice sheets and the release of detritus from melting icebergs. Marine sediments provide information from time periods ranging from 20 000 years to 180 million years ago....
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...data from 4,200 river-measuring stations in 38 European nations across a 50-year timespan. They also collected information on soil moisture, rain and snowfall and temperature. In western Europe, 50% of the stations recorded a shift towards earlier floods – up to 15 days earlier – and in northeastern Europe, half of all hydrometric stations recorded an advance in the...
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