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Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...management persists. Existing UK landfill regulations prioritise public health and safety alongside environmental compliance. It includes acquiring planning permission and an environmental permit linked to a proposed landfill restoration plan. At the landfill restoration phase, operators place an even layer of material on top of the landfill to create a soil profile, but...
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Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...project on anti-nuclear activism...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Luc-André Brunet]As an undergraduate student, I did an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree in Canada, which included a fair bit of history. I spent one year abroad in Paris, where most of my modules...
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Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?
History & The Arts

Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?

...project. We direct you to other resources so that you may extend your enquiry by comparing accounts, cross-referencing evidence, or verifying sources...In this third intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection, we suggest you take a look at two different annotations for the first few chapters in ‘The Histories’, Book 1. One is RapGenius, an online...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...project focused on print in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and my book Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714 was based on that work. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I was particularly drawn to printed material that conveyed political ideas – newspapers, pamphlets, electoral literature – and then...
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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Introduction and guidance: Introduction - This Principles and practices of peace education course is a collaboration between the Open University and Quakers in Britain. The course introduces the core principles of peace education to those working with children and young people. As well as practical ideas for everyday classroom practice, it links to materials for further...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...project design and management. Diagramming serves three general purposes. To note down your thoughts on a particular problem, situation or issue (sometimes called your system of interest) in a way that organises those thoughts so you can see links and relationships between the different factors you’ve identified. To communicate your ideas to others, possibly across...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...introduction of new management methods and techniques and new working methods Creation or use of new technologies, introduced in an organisation to render services to users and citizens Product or service innovations Creation of new public services or products Governance innovations Development of new forms and processes to address specific societal problems Conceptual...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...Introduction - Any local newspaper describes the latest achievements of volunteers in the community: hospital fund-raising, a wildlife pond created. The advantages to the community are obvious, but this unit explores how engaging in voluntary work can enhance your employment opportunities. It will focus mainly on how voluntary work can improve job prospects, for those...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs