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Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and technological experiment. In our world of finite resources and massive...
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Audio 55 mins
Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...change. ‘B’ or ‘R’ denoting balancing or reinforcing feedback loops, respectively. Conventions The words or phrases represent variables. The arrows represent links between the variables, with the assumption that when variable A changes, variable B changes. A relationship where a change in A leads to a change in B in the same direction is denoted by an ‘s’...
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Video 10 mins
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...change teaching so that students are happy to be lifelong learners and users of mathematics understand how can mathematics be creative...Teaching secondary mathematics: 1 Key issue 1: Why do people learn mathematics and how can it be taught effectively? - As a teacher, you will have to deal with attitudes towards mathematics and explain the mathematics that you expect...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...changes in temperature on a variety of objects and looks at the problem of how to boil water...Engineering is about extending the horizons of society by solving technical problems, ranging from the meeting of basic human needs for food and shelter to the generation of wealth by trade. This free course, Engineering: The challenge of temperature, looks at the impact of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...changing climate, so that the ground is still covered with snow when the marmots arouse from hibernation (earlier than used to be the case), making food hard to find. Summary of Section 1 Hibernation is a physiological and behavioural adaptation whose function is to maximize energy efficiency in animals remaining in the same area the whole year round. It is an alternative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...change people's behaviour...Much academic literature has been written about behaviour change. The traditional, ‘common-sense’ view is that attitudes precede behaviours, as stated in Azjen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). This model has influenced policy-makers to seek to change citizens’ behaviour by simply providing information or providing feedback about the...
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Article 5 mins
The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...providing credit to high risk groups Jews could help boost consumer spending. But did this relative tolerance last? Later in the 16th century life became much more difficult for Venetian Jews. Depending on the economic and cultural climate of the day, the Jewish community was either fostered or hounded. Venice, amongst the cities in Europe, was not unique in this regard....
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Article 5 mins
Sands of time
Science, Maths & Technology

Sands of time

...climate. Other rocks may have much coarser grains that resemble sand or even pebbles. These may have formed along ancient coastlines, on beaches, sand dunes and in rivers, in much the same way as they are today. If they are red in colour, such as along the Devon coastline, they may have been deposited in an ancient desert. The red colour is due to the presence of iron...
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Activity 5 mins