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Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?
Nature & Environment

Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?

...energy sources and natural resource management such as water use and ensuring biodiversity on land holdings...Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?: 4.2 What does sustainable tourism look like? - Sustainable tourism is not a ‘type’ of tourism in the same way leisure travel, seeing friends and family and business travel are (see Section 2). There is not even...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...energy, pace and mood. For example, if a client is slow paced, the coach may need to slow their pace to match that of the client. One additional benefit of paying attention to rapport is it helps the process of listening. By tuning into the client, the coach puts their attention on the client, which helps the listening process to begin. Building rapport Now watch the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...solar system. There should be a sun in the centre, and a certain distance away there should be planets, and around each planet there should be a few moons. Now that was a scientific decision as how to design your constitution. As it happened it worked pretty well, reasonably well. But the idea that we should design our way of life because of the way the universe is,...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...energy levels and productivity further, Chris Bailey has written a book on managing your time, attention and energy – The Productivity Project (2016). Or you can view his recent articles and sign up for his monthly productivity newsletter. If you need additional help in finding those blocks of time, you can use the Time Management tool in the Toolkit. This will help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...energy that results is to invite them to pose ‘what if?’ questions. As an illustration, when you worked on the Möbius band in Activity 11, some suggestions were provided in these activities for things to try. A more open-ended (and in many ways more satisfactory) version of this activity would be to ask you to pose a series of ‘what if…’ questions for yourself....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...Energy at The Open University, provides an overview of net zero. STEPHEN PEAKE There’s this phrase that probably a lot of you have heard, ‘net zero’. What does it mean? It simply means that we have to get our collection of greenhouse gas emissions, that’s carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and some industrial gases along the way as well, we have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...energy, besides. Let's start with the water. Where does it originate? NARRATOR 2 Every bottle carries a date code stamp from the production facility where it was bottled. This code shows the best before date as well as the production lot code of the process batch when it was bottled along with many other thousands of bottles which were filled during that shift. The water...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...energy was moonshine. Could never happen. The next morning, Leo Szilard invented the nuclear chain reaction, the next morning. So we have to be careful. Let’s look at nuclear fusion in particular. Long ago, they invented a method of generating unlimited amounts of energy, long ago. It’s called the hydrogen bomb. So now, fusion concentrates on containment. And AI has...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs