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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...energy and our healthcare needs as well as the raw materials for supply chains across every single area of industry. Read the Cogent Skills report A Greenprint for Skills for the Low-Carbon Industries. How will issues of sustainability and climate change affect your future career choice, and what contribution can you make to a low carbon future? Activity 2 Evaluating the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...energy-- KIT HARINGTON What do you want me to do? Post about the billions I give you every year? ROSE LESLIE He’ll tell everyone now that he loves renewables and then he turns around to me and tells me that he loves me. Well, which is it? KIT HARINGTON Well, obviously, it’s you. It’s always been you. TEXT ON SCREEN: Our banks are in a hidden relationship with oil...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...energy-efficient machinery) or bringing in more money (e.g. investment in product development to attract more customers). Smaller businesses also usually have limited management resources. A single manager, or a very small management team, only has so much time to attend to all the business and the same will be true of a small number of employees. This can be a problem as...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...energy and embedding product re-use and re-cycling in their manufacturing practices, firms may reduce air pollution. However, although we all benefit from cleaner air and lower waste, firms cannot monetise ‘clean air’ and so cannot monetise all of the value they generate. The concept of ‘monetising’ or putting a price to a product or a service, lies at the heart...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...solar system. On-board, within the Philae Lander, was the Ptolemy instrument that I and my colleagues at The Open University and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories designed and built. Ptolemy is a miniature research laboratory that sniffs and detects the chemical and isotopic make-up of the comet. Missions like Rosetta really push the boundaries of science and engineering...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...Energy quantisation in atomic structure Animism of atoms Probability in atomic structure Size of atoms Structure/shape of atoms Weight of atoms Chemistry Ideal gas equations Gas volume calculations Pressure volume Temperature relationship Unfamiliarity with thermodynamics Computing/ Technology Java programming Boolean conditions Iteration: loops or repeat, how often to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...energy required can lead to poorer mental health outcomes, alongside clinical diagnoses of depression and anxiety (Graf-Kurtulus and Gelo, 2025). Sport and exercise psychologist and former athlete Kristin McGinty-Minister describes her personal experiences of neurodivergence in sport as follows: I believed that my sensory challenges, masking, and confusion about social...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...energy, hence for coal and steam engines; and these engines, and the machines themselves, had a voracious appetite for iron, which called for further coal and power. Steam also made possible the factory city, which used unheard-of quantities of iron (hence coal) in its many-storied mills and its water and sewage systems. At the same time, the processing of the flow of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs