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Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...statistics was that 48% told us they were dismissed or ignored when they tried to talk about climate change. That we could do something about this afternoon. That we could do something about today. IMMIE In places like school, I feel that they don’t really listen and don’t respect the fact that I’ve thought about it and tried to educate myself about it. I kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...Statistics at The Open University, discusses how he interprets science as it is reported on radio news bulletins. You do not need to make any notes on this interview, unless you particularly want to. It's not explored in this short clip, but Kevin has developed a 12-point checklist for evaluating science news on the radio. You will have a chance to read this checklist...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...statistics are a stark reminder of how male dominated the world of classical music is. [Described image] This week, you will reflect on how we got into this situation, including the historical exclusion of women composers from the classical music canon and music education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...statistics, personal details, etc. can all be recorded and stored on magnetic media, i.e. materials that are able to be magnetised to store information for future retrieval. During the twentieth century magnetic media increasingly came to the fore in the recording industry, culminating in the tape recording technology with which some people today are still familiar. A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...statistical information which at some point will have been constructed through contact with consumers, producers and government officials. The point of econometrics is to develop a big picture of the economy and to make predictions about what will happen if the present situation continues or when some of the relationships change. Like all other kinds of social scientific...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...statistics called redshift space distortions (RSD). [Described image] Figure 6 The measured constraints on an evolving dark energy equation of state. The 2018 Planck data (blue shaded regions) are further constrained by BAO and SNe measurements (cyan shading) and by BAO, RSD and weak lensing (WL) measurements (red shading). Darker and lighter shading within each data set...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...statistical analysis, or in numbers of jobs created or lost...Companies and financial accounting: 4 Three perspectives on the role of companies and financial reporting in society - The allocation of a bundle of property rights over shareholders, the company and the directors creates the possibility for conflicting interests. In addition, market imperfections, the limits...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...statistics to insurers to help quantify the risks that insurers are taking on. Insurers need data on the probabilities of the perils for which they offer insurance – death, illness, disease, burglary, accidents and so forth – and data on people of different ages, genders, locations, postcodes and households, so that they can estimate their risks of paying out....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs