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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...out basic U-value calculations for windows and insulation materials understand the factors influencing heating system efficiency carry out basic calculations concerning the efficiencies and CO2 emissions of different heating systems carry out basic calculations concerning lighting...Energy in buildings: 1 The importance of energy use in buildings - Appreciating the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...out of a low dingy heaven came all day, thick and silent, the whirling snow,--and so by exquisite succession of sight and sound have I been taken from the top of the year to the bottom of it, from midsummer, with its unreaped harvests, to the night on which I am sitting here--Christmas, 1862. Sitting here, I incontinently find myself holding a levee of departed Christmas...
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Article 10 mins
Child of Our Time: Activities
Education & Development

Child of Our Time: Activities

...made for previous Child of Our Time series...Over the years we've produced many activities that that relate to child and youth development. Some require you to download and print a PDF, while others you can attempt online or with pen and paper. We've collected them below so you can try them out. You can also get the latest on the children with Child of Our Time 2013....
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Activity 5 mins
Health and Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Health and Social Care

...to these suggestions and should select OpenLearn courses to suit your interests and learning goals. To find out what other courses are available visit Free short courses from the Open University | OpenLearn - Open University. [A thick black arrow points to the left to show that you can click here to go back to a previous menu.] Back to OpenLearn choices for YASS students...
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Article 10 mins
Scottish curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Scottish curriculum

...to these suggestions and should select OpenLearn courses to suit your interests and learning goals. To find out what other courses are available visit Free short courses from the Open University | OpenLearn - Open University. [A thick black arrow points to the left to show that you can click here to go back to a previous menu.] Back to OpenLearn choices for YASS students...
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Article 10 mins
Sport and Exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sport and Exercise

...to these suggestions and should select OpenLearn courses to suit your interests and learning goals. To find out what other courses are available visit Free short courses from the Open University | OpenLearn - Open University. [A thick black arrow points to the left to show that you can click here to go back to a previous menu.] Back to OpenLearn choices for YASS students...
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Article 10 mins
The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...out in front of it seems to be a reasonable one: all road users have a duty of care to all other road users, and the timely pressing of vehicles’ brake pedals prevents innumerable accidents every day. A human driver of the car would probably have made the same initial assumption as the Google car: that the bus would respond to the car’s indicator by slowing down to...
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Article 10 mins
Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...out to borrow experimental methods from psychology. It aims to diversify the methodological toolkit of traditional philosophy, and is very relevant to my own work. I would argue that the XPhi movement has been useful in generating fertile debates about 'how we know', and in interrogating the role of 'lay' and 'expert' understandings for guiding philosophical enquiry....
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Article 5 mins