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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...introduction to this album. South African passbooks Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid. Classifying races How races were classified after the introduction of the 1950 Population Registration Act. Held hostage to a passbook The impact of passbooks on the community. Humiliation of the red stamp The 'Vula-Vala' check-up that was undergone to...
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Audio 55 mins
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in policy, procedure and behaviour. This path begins with two fundamental activities that underpin and facilitate the other tips I will share later. First, we must seek to gain an ever-improving snapshot of the organisation’s carbon status quo, or ‘carbon baseline’. Second, we must raise...
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Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...Introduction - Please note: a Statement of Participation is not issued for this course. Making sense of data, and hence obtaining useful and well-founded answers to important questions is the major goal of statistics. This free OpenLearn course, Modelling and estimation, is an extract from the Open University course M248 Analysing data, a second level course that aims to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...introduction to this album. Reinventing Statistics Fisher's principles are at the basis of modern research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The Quest for Certainty A Lonely Genius. Experts reveal the logic...
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Audio 30 mins
Energy efficiency: hospitals
Nature & Environment

Energy efficiency: hospitals

...introduction to this album The hospital as a transport hub How hospitals face unique organisational challenges as generators of lots of traffic. Hospital transport strategies Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital. Making hospital transport eco-friendly An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a...
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Audio 28 mins
Earth's physical resources: fossil fuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: fossil fuels

...introduction to this album Declining Oil and Gas Reserves How long have we got before all the Earth's fossil fuels are depleted? What will happen to gas prices when the North Sea gas reserves are gone? The Future of Energy The next century will see massive change in sea levels and increased flooding. Switching to liquid fuel, hydrogen and renewables will reduce the...
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Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...model reflects reality, by comparing the model's predictions against real-world data. This material forms part of The Open University course S396 Ecosystems... Ecosystems: modelling the Earth A short introduction to this album. Using a model How models can be used to predict the Earth's climate patterns. The acid test The limitations of models; how to measure model error....
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Audio 12 mins
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...Introduction - Welcome to the last week of this course! By now you should be feeling better informed about diversity and discrimination in a workplace context and be full of ideas about how to take things forward within your chosen organisation! This week, you’ll bring all of your learning together and start to plan your next steps. In this final introductory video, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs