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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and referenced in the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Text Section 3: extract: Eyben, R., Kidder, T.,...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Write down the important information you need to know to work out the number of rolls of wallpaper required. Remember, you can click on ‘reveal comment’ for additional help. Comment Try drawing a sketch, and think through the steps you would take to apply new wallpaper in your kitchen. Answer This is how Rebecca, a student, tackled the problem. Her notes are given...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...Writing for The Conversation, John Newman has reassuring news for the multibillion industries, though - a lot of free-to-use activity gets overlooked by the regulators: U.S. antitrust law is uniquely devoted to a strain of economics often called “price theory.” Beginning in the 1970s, price theory came to dominate antitrust law and scholarship. Price theory (no...
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Write down the names of the mammals with the same sequence. Answer Any of the pairs of mammals listed below is a correct answer here Sheep and goat Toothed whale and baleen whale Zebra and tapir SAQ 7 Question 7: What does this tell us about this pair of mammals? Answer They are closely related. SAQ 8 Question 8: How many pairs of mammals have the same sequence for this...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...writing 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, we write 26. This is read (and said) as ‘2 to the power 6’; 6 is the index or the power. In general, this means that a super n equals a multiplication a multiplication a multiplication a full stop full stop full stop full stop full stop full stop to n postfix times factors where n is called the index, or the power, of a. Both a and...
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...Creative Director at Icon Films, discusses the ethics of opening up private and public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the...
Hallowain't III: Ghost moose
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Ghost moose

...writing at TakePart, explains the size of the problem: Even more ticks pile onto the moose the following winter. In their efforts to dislodge these pests, the moose rub so aggressively at their dark-brown outer guard hairs that they break them off close to the root, leaving only the whitish stubs behind. Moose with especially bad infestations—as many as 50,000...
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...writing] Wherever you wish to take your learning next, there is a course here that can help with that next step. Looking Globally: the future of education and Becoming an Ethical Researcher are OpenLearn Courses both embedded in the OU's Masters in Childhood & Youth (F55) & Masters in Education (F70) qualifications. A full Masters qualification is studied in three Stages...