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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...Introduction to polymers available at http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/chemistry/introduction-polymers/content-section-0 Smith, J. (2014) UNEP Year Book 2014 emerging issues update ‘Plastic Debris in the Ocean’, [Online].Available at http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2014/PDF/chapt8.pdf (Accessed 10 August 2016). Welden, N., How your pile of...
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Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Management with the OU so she knows what it’s like to be an OU student! Mo is a long-standing Associate Lecturer at the OU and has been involved in systems thinking for many years, not just as an AL but also as a residential school tutor and Course Director and through consultancy work across a range of large and small organisations in the Public and Private sectors....
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Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...managing our environment? This short video looks at developing a more sustainable relationship between humans and the environment...World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th June each year. Around the world, events and stories are used to highlight the environmental threats and challenges communities face and to celebrate the ways in which they are adapting...
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The solar system and the night sky
Education & Development

The solar system and the night sky

...Manager...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses I’m the Curriculum Manager for YXM130 and my favourite characteristic about the module is that it provides you with the option to study what interests you. If I was to study this module, I would be interested in studying courses that would help to expand my knowledge of the solar system and the...
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Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?
Nature & Environment

Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?

...manage trees in urban environments now and for the future...6000 years ago, most of Britain would have been covered in a mosaic of woodland and open heaths, bogs and grasslands. Today, although only about six percent of the land in Britain is urban, almost 85% of the population lives in towns and cities. The ancient woods that once covered much of Britain now make up a...
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Video 8 mins
Studying Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying Engineering

...module T868: Environmental Monitoring and Protection, which discusses different environmental monitoring techniques for noise, water, air and wastes, and explores available mitigation methods. This module can be taken individually but it also forms part of our Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management, our MSc in Environmental Management and our MSc in Engineering....
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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...Introduction - A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. (John C. Maxwell, cited in Dempsey and Forst, 2011, p. 35) Are you a leader? Do you – as Maxwell asserts in the quote above – know the way, go the way and show the way? In recent years the concept of leaders and leadership has become increasingly popular, but what exactly is leadership?...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...Introduction - This course will introduce you to some ideas about how information and communiction technologies (ICTs) systems work. We will look at how ICT systems convey, store and manipulate data, and how they process data. Finally, using the example of a supermarket, we will analyse how ICT systems are used. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs