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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...OU module Environment: journeys through a changing world and is designed to measure the personal consumption-based carbon footprint of a UK inhabitant (if you live outside the UK, see further resources). This calculator starts with all the greenhouse gases emitted in supplying what the UK consumes, including the emissions embedded in imports. It then divides this total by...
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Activity 5 mins
Ms Yang on British and Chinese education
Education & Development

Ms Yang on British and Chinese education

...on her experiences. ...If you've been watching our OU/BBC co-production Are our kids tough enough? Chinese School you may be interested to hear the Chinese science teacher's, Ms Yang, opinions of the programme, her experience at the school and what she thinks about the Chinese and British education systems. Select from the articles below to discover her point of view....
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Article 20 mins
Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...OU Ph.D. student explains all you need to know about genome editing...Genome editing, also referred to as “gene editing”, “genome engineering” or “gene engineering”, encompasses various modern technologies that allow scientists to alter the DNA of organisms or cells. These techniques aim at inserting, removing, replacing or modifying specific fragments of DNA....
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Article 10 mins
Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub
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Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub

...students, and filtered by subjects that you will recognise from your curriculum...It’s all been selected as content that can support your studies, be that in developing study skills or as further learning around the curriculum. So while we can’t guarantee there is content on every topic you are studying, with 350+ articles, courses and interactives hand-picked for...
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Article 15 mins
Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...students who attend a mainstream school in the Midlands. From mainstream to segregated Peter White meets a sight impaired student who moved fro mainstream school back into a special school to pursue her A level studies. Disability and Difference The impact of continued research into genetic screening and therapies is debated by people with disabilities and geneticists,...
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Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...students by giving them tests of grammar, logical reasoning and humour. They then gave the results to students and asked them to rank themselves in terms of their position in the class. They found that students who did less well in the tests tended to have inaccurate assessments of their own rank compared with students who performed better. Students with high ......
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Article 10 mins
Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...become cost-effective. Renewables now provide 42% of UK electricity, 29% globally and the industry is growing exponentially. Despite this, globally, fossil fuel companies receive nineteen times greater levels of subsidies compared to renewable energy. Additionally, fossil fuel companies, often with government support, continue to prospect for more oil and gas globally,...
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Article 10 mins
EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...become perplexing. When it comes to frameworks for evaluating the quality of educational technology (EdTech), the proliferation of evaluation frameworks has led to uncertainty among educators and decision-makers. Which evaluation framework holds validity and which one should be adopted as the definitive framework for establishing what works in children’s EdTech?...
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Article 5 mins