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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...resources, physics, technologies, environmental aspects and economics. A product of its time, it included a rich array of learning resources including print materials, videos, software and slide packs. Launched in 1995/96, this OU Renewable Energy Pack changed the game and transformed renewable energy education in colleges and universities both in the UK and overseas. It...
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Article 5 mins
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...resources for school governors in Wales...Welcome This course provides a brief introduction to the field of inclusive education. You can also access the other courses in this collection: An introduction to leadership for governors and Teamwork: an introduction for school governors. Regardless of the type of school in which you find yourself, their approach to inclusive...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
How do you know you are in a smart city?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you know you are in a smart city?

Integrated urban technology is less apparent when it is functioning well says, Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford...Recorded at The Open University for BBC Radio 4's sociological discussion programme, Thinking Allowed. Transcript
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An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...resources to highlight and deal with an issue in a specific geographical location. When you are given a script for a prescription, you might collect this by hand, or an appointment arranged with your GP. They have to take your details from the record they hold. Assuming that this data is correct, it will provide a link to other information that may be used for other...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...human beings carry out in their everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural competence are intermingled in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4:7, which calls for the ‘…promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s...
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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...human made material flows (extraction and displacement of natural resources) cause shifts in the eco-systems, which on one hand contribute to observed welfare levels, but on the other lead to longer term systemic disequilibria such as floods, shortages of water, desertification, erosion, etc. Hence, the primary objective of eco-innovation should be to reduce material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...resources of the Earth. As the human population nears the limit of what the Earth can provide, the competition for resources (water, food and oil) and the consequences of overcrowding (pollution and disease) will tend to increase. There is some good news, however. Figures from the United Nations Population Fund have indicated that the rate of the rise in the human...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs