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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...et al., 2017). Even though the policies on food focus on feeding 9 billion people by 2050, in reality food is not distributed equally and some people have poorer access to food than others. In addition to the accessibility of food, affordability is also important. However, for hundreds of millions of people in the world, the cost of sufficient and nutritious food can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...et al’s definition of architecture based on the work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...et al., 2012). The first fire started on the 27 June 2007 and the final fire was extinguished in early September 2007. The fires burnt through dry forests and vegetation, often moving quickly through the landscape (Athanaiou and Xanthopoulos, 2010). [Described image] Figure 2: A wildfire threatening the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...et al. (Christie, 1954; Christie and Cook, 1958; Stone, Lederer and Christie, 1993), there have also been some significant findings in this field of research. For example, it is often the case that those who score highly on the right-wing authoritarianism scale are more highly prejudiced towards out-groups and minorities (e.g. Altemeyer, 1981). Since this early work,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...et al., 2012, p. 632) This free course is an adapted extract from an Open University course BB844 Marketing in the 21st century...Marketing in the 21st century: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate whether marketing is a process or philosophy think analytically, creatively and in an integrated manner about marketing ethics...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...et exists in many forms: the 'glass ceiling', ageism, racism, and so on. This free course, Economics explains discrimination in the labour market, will help you look at this problem from a new perspective: through economics. You will learn how economists have tried to understand what drives this distortion of the labour market and why women and those from minority ethnic...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...et al., 2010; IEA, 2010b; BP, 2010) So what is the chain of events that cause climate change on a global level?...Week 1: Introducing renewable energy: 5.1 What are the causes of climate change? - The surface temperature of the Earth establishes itself at an equilibrium level where the incoming radiative power energy from the Sun balances the outgoing reflected amd...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...Les are having some friends round for dinner. There will be six of them sitting round their circular table, but unfortunately not all their friends get on well and so they want to arrange a seating plan that will keep everyone happy. Read the conversation between Sandy and Les and then work out how they can seat their guests. Sandy Faisal doesn’t get on with Gareth, so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs