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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the Amazon System need to do in order to continue surviving? Find out more about The Open University’s involvement in Project COBRA, which focuses on increasing confidence across indigenous...
Essential skills for OU study
Education & Development

Essential skills for OU study

...own time, or focus on a specific skill you’d like to improve. So, welcome (or welcome back) to studying with the OU! Bookmark this page and use these free resources as and when you need them. This collection of resources was compiled from OpenLearn's 'skills for study' section. If you're looking for even more free courses and content to support your studies, click here....
60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory

...humans are a rational lot. When the price of something rises people will supply more of it – and buy less of it. If they expect inflation to go up – people will usually ask for higher wages – (though they might not get them) And if they can see interest or exchange rates falling in one country, people with lots of money there will try to move it out, faster than you...
Space for reflection
Education & Development

Space for reflection

...human nature and in human potential to learn, and of course teachers have to be ready with a mop to clear up the mess. I mean that learning from mistakes cannot be a neat and tidy process. The oriental mind believes in one more chance to get it right. This has something to do with a deeply held belief in reincarnation. Nothing is over here and now. We will be here again...
National Enrichment Programme for Schools
Education & Development

National Enrichment Programme for Schools

...resources below from OpenLearn. All OpenLearn resources are free and you can study whenever you want, at your own pace. Grab the NEP learner guide for help getting started. You might also find it useful to keep track of what you're learning and reflect as you go, we've got some templates that can help. Don't forget you'll get the most out of OpenLearn if you create an...
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...human cognitive system uses shortcuts to simplify the task. When there is information conflict in such highly complex situations, this creates a state psychologists refer to as “cognitive dissonance”. Human beings generally seek to reduce such dissonance by trying to restore the consistency of the information they are exposed to, such as by integrating new information...
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...humanities as their natural home. Each ‘sect’ saw their own disciplines as being superior in their contribution to humanity and believed that disciples of the other were only able to engage with ideas from their own field of expertise. It is, perhaps, in this debate that we can see how distinctions between ‘disciplines’ emerge – disciples or followers fight for...
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...human driver dominated by the mindless power of an artefact or in the artefact forcing me, a mindless human, to obey the law that I freely accepted when I got my driver's licence? Of course, I could have put on my seat belt before the light flashed and the alarm sounded, incorporating in my own self the good behaviour that everyone-- the car, the law, the police –...
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