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Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...adapted extract from the Open University course T868 Environmental monitoring and protection...Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the major sources of water pollutants; describe the effects on water due to organic materials, plant nutrients and toxic, physical and biological...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...et al., 2017). It stands to reason that children who enjoy reading tend to read more and thus become better at reading, yet choosing to read also impacts on children’s wider educational attainment. For example, Reading for Pleasure is positively associated with comprehension, grammar and wider vocabulary (Sullivan and Brown, 2015). In addition, it was found in one study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...adapted extract from the Open University course K323 Investigating health and social care....Why use literature reviews in health and social care?: Introduction - Why use literature reviews in health and social care? is a free course which introduces and explains how literature reviews can support evidence-based practice in health and social care. A literature review can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...adapted extract from the Open University course E808 Children and young people’s worlds...Children and young people: food and food marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify and analyse the importance of food in various aspects of children’s and young people’s lives understand the impact of food marketing on children...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...adapt. National power Governments use their spending power to stimulate economic activity in sectors deemed of strategic importance. Hence in 2023 the UK government’s Levelling Up Fund distributed £2.1bn of funding to projects it believed held the possibility of boosting economic activity – funding a range of projects in the areas of tourism, artificial intelligence...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...adapted from Berners-Lee et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...Adapted from Figure 8, Betoule, M. et al. (2014) ‘Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples’, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cornel University, https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4064, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence,
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...et al., 2018) which you completed in Section 2 or SWOT analysis (Carlson, 2016) are useful tools to encourage students to reflect and identify strengths, learning needs (weaknesses), opportunities and threats. It provides a baseline from which learning objectives can be established. Activity 16 Read Morrison’s (2011) article ‘SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs