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How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?
Nature & Environment

How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?

...project’s initiation in 2016, about one million seeds of different species of certified indigenous trees have been dispersed throughout Kenya through partnerships with locals and with a germination rate of 60 per cent. “People use charcoal every day, necessitating for more trees. Climate change has also caused community conflicts, especially among pastoralists in...
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Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...introduction to the skills that can help frame a successful research project. Beginning with an outline of the research process and how to get a project started, the course then moves on to a discussion of other key steps including production of a literature review and evaluation of appropriate research methodologies; the course also highlights the importance of ethical...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...project focusing on the teaching of slavery in British schools. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Katie Donington]My grandmother was a great lover of history; she wanted to study it at university, but she became profoundly deaf when she was a teenager and then the...
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The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...project - but this isn't the first time the OU's academics have come together with artists. Discover some earlier collaborations...[Pop-up professors] ‘Pop up’ Professors Bridget Anderson from Oxford University and Engin Isin from the Open University Below you can also access an example of a prior collaboration among academics from The Open University, Oxford...
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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...introduction offers the perfect opportunity to develop the skills needed to communicate effectively in Spanish in everyday contexts. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXS001 Beginners Spanish 1: ¡Empezamos!. After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Metric spaces and continuity
Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...introduction to metric spaces and continuity. The key idea is to use three particular properties of the Euclidean distance as the basis for defining what is meant by a general distance function, a metric. Section 1 introduces the idea of a metric space and shows how this concept allows us to generalise the notion of continuity. Section 2 develops the idea of sequences and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Developing leadership in the voluntary sector
Education & Development

Developing leadership in the voluntary sector

...introduction to Skills for Work produced in partnership with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations Skills for work. If you are in Wales, we suggest you also explore this introduction to resources on Active Citizenship in Wales Active Citizenship. Visit the CVSL website for links to further resources and more details of the support available to the voluntary...
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Wordsworth re-visited
History & The Arts

Wordsworth re-visited

...introduction to the many literary, political and cultural shifts that informed and inspired one of literature's most breathtakingly beautiful movements. This material forms part of The Open University course A207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830... Wordsworth re-visited A short introduction to this album. Wordsworth's eye and ear In Wordsworth's poetry,...
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