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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
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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Article 5 mins
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
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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Article 5 mins
Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Data availability “Too long they have been overlooked as a means to tackle climate change. Too often have problems of accurate measurement and reporting stymied progress towards climate-smart soil management. “With the surge in availability of big data on soils around the world, alongside rapid improvements in understanding and modelling, the time has come for this...
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Article 10 mins
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...data files and security updates’ if they are not already selected. Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not have a regular schedule for delivering updates. On occasion, Apple has forced security updates on machines to fix the most serious problems. These updates are entirely automated and do not require restarting your machine. Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad) Updates for Apple’s...
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Article 5 mins