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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...sustainable biofuels will have emerged as a widely used clean alternative. Jet engines will reach new heights in efficiency, making flying cheaper and more accessible to the masses. The mega-rich of 2045 may have scramjet-powered airplanes that can break the sound barrier multiple times over and result in a London-Sydney flight taking less than one hour. The price of oil...
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Article 5 mins
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...sustainability recognise that digital transformation is continuing and consider approaches for planning for digital change...Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation: 1 Why digital skills matter - Essential digital skills are a step towards learning lots of other new things. They can improve your confidence to use technology for work, learning and daily life....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...sustainable palm oil scheme Plantation owners and pressure groups are calling on food producers such as Unilever and Nestlé to stop exploiting an environmental offset scheme to buy palm oil from unsustainable sources. The $50 billion palm oil market keeps the world in soap, margarine, cakes and chocolate. Growing demand and spiralling prices, which have swung between...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...sustained focus on toddlers leading us to ask, ‘where are the babies?’. One reason for this suggested in some papers were practitioner concerns about being able to keep the very youngest children safe outside. For example, if older children were playing on equipment such as bikes it was important to keep the babies apart so that they would not be in any danger. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...sustain multiple businesses offering almost identical products and often with very similar names. And the football business is no different. Chris Turner We’re on outskirts of Sheffield 10 miles away from Bramall Lane and probably 15 miles away from Hillsborough and in the opposite direction we’ve got Derby and Forest, not too far away from us. But we’re a town of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...sustain the identity of a disengaged reader. In reading time, these students may be unable to settle, may pretend to read or merely flick through the pages of a text. During reading aloud, they may look as if they are listening, but simply be taking a short break, thinking about their own concerns. Consequently, they will be unable to participate in any related...
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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Sustainable Business Model. Open Praxis, 7(4), pp. 299–310. Law, P. (2016) Digital badging at The Open University: recognition for informal learning. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 30 (3), pp. 221–34. Law, P. (2019) How Directing Formal Students to Institutionally-Delivered OER Supports their Success. Journal of Learning for Development,...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...sustaining the Earth's environmental conditions on which life depends...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: 2 Energy, work, power and efficiency - In everyday speech we often refer colloquially to the powerful politician, the energetic child, the working mother and the efficient administrator. We use these terms imprecisely, and often wrongly, compared...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs