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Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...and locate yourself in this learning journey The Learning Journey will take approximately 6 hours to work through. It's broken into short sections like this, so there are lots of natural stopping points if you want to pause and come back to it later. This Learning Journey is part of the Creative Climate project on OpenLearn. Move to the next part of the journey....
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Activity 6 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...writing or displaying large numbers...From paving your patio to measuring the ingredients for your latest recipe, squares, roots and powers really are part of everyday life. This free course reviews the basics of all three and also describes scientific notation, which is a convenient way of writing or displaying large numbers....Squares, roots and powers: Introduction -...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...creative possibilities. When thinking with prototypes, one needs to resist the urge to complete them and instead deploy these objects to generate new ideas through a continuous process of rearranging their components and features. We developed a prototype called Empathy Tree, which invites people to plant and care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over...
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Article 5 mins
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...writing at speed regularly. 3 Discussion Alongside the comments are some suggested strategies for tackling these difficulties. Each strategy is covered by one of the sections of this course. The third column contains the number of the section relevant to that strategy. Your own comments on your concerns may not be listed here, but you may find them addressed through the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
EDI in research: a collection
Education & Development

EDI in research: a collection

...writing these pages, we held to a belief that, ‘The academy won’t change overnight. Nor does change occur through purely demographic shifts. It will only change when standard structures of knowledge and power are confronted’ (Reyes, 2022, p. 1). Each page aims at stimulating thought and discussion rather than provide a definitive guide. There are few concerns that...
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Article 5 mins
Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!
Education & Development

Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!

...reads what you write online? Aunt Mabel, pals from the pub, your best friend's ex wife - who are you talking to when you post online? Transcript Filter bubbles and fake news Have you ever noticed you only see opinions on social media that match your own? Maybe you are trapped in a filter bubble! And what is all this fake news we hear about in the... news...? Transcript...
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Video 10 mins
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...write down the names in the box below and what your interaction with them was. Do they have anything in common? Discussion Here is an example list: My list includes Google (general internet searches), Chat GPT (while talking to a student whose research draws on Gen AI), Hewlett Packard (my work laptop), The Open University (my employer), Aldi (they made the soup I had for...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Creative Commons Wiki page on different types of OER. Write a blog post of less than 500 words on either the benefits and drawbacks of big and little OER approaches (from Martin Weller’s conference submission) or the benefits and drawbacks of OER Learning Objects and OER Courseware (from the Creative Commons Wiki). Remember to tag your post with #h817open and, if you...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs