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What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?
Nature & Environment

What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?

...systems), and the system is even more water efficient than hydroponics, producing two products using the same water. Fish food is the only major input required, and it’s easier to use bio-controls against pests compared to soil-based agriculture. Fun at the farm BBC presenter Kate Humble now runs the Humble by Nature teaching farm on a hill above the Wye valley in...
Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...systems What has also strongly come to light is how the employment route selected by previously home-educated adults is strongly influenced not only by their prior experiences and interests during home education but also by the internal value systems that they felt they had developed by being outside of the conventional system. This meant that there had been a pattern...
Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...system. One where work will feature much less prominently. By contrast technology could be deployed to create more connected communities where individuals can develop themselves free from the pressures of career and job. According to author, Paul Mason, this new order will be marked by “Collaborative production, using network technology to produce goods and services...
Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...system? Samuel Jackson, PhD student in The School of Physical Sciences digs into the research...At the Open University we are looking at asteroids with the OpenScience Observatories to study their rotation and surface. To understand the conditions present in the early solar system, we must study the remnants of its formation. By studying the dynamical and physical...
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...systems and applications and how to manage and store digital information and assets. Communicating How to communicate effectively digitally depending on the ‘tools’ and ‘context’. Creating and editing Developing the skills to create and edit using digital tools and reflect best practice and guidelines for creation of digital content and products. Transacting The...
The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...system, it is an overly complex and uneven situation. Some secure environments provide The Virtual Campus (VC), a secure platform used in prisons in England and Wales for resettlement and education purposes. This enables students to access online learning materials via a secure Moodle platform. Access to Virtual Campus can be limited and is dependent upon the individual...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...thinking about the wide range of themes, tools and resources available to those who wish to engage with OER. The quiz consists of a range of multiple choice and free text questions. The quiz should take between 30 and 45 minutes to complete...Creating open educational resources: Round 1: Images - Identify the Creative Commons licences Question 1 What does the Creative...
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...thinking. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Figure 4) is a system for classifying levels of learning behaviour. ‘Creating’ is at the top of the classification. The intentional use of verbs in the classification highlights our understanding of learning as being an active process (Tarlinton, 2003). Creativity is a process and you can’t be creative if you don’t do...
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