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Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...de Korne, H. (2012) Learning first: a research agenda for improving learning in low-income countries. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. UNESCO (1998) World Education Report, Paris: UNESCO. Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (2005) Understanding by design, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,...Global perspectives on primary...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...de Groot, R. S. and Opdam, P. (2014) ‘Ecosystem services as a contested concept: a synthesis of critique and counter-arguments’, Conservation Letters, 17 February [Online]. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12091 (Accessed 17 July 2014). Senge, P. M., Smith, B., Kruschwitz, N., Laur, J. and Schley, S. (2008) The Necessary Revolution, New York, NY, Doubleday....
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...this free course: Images Figure 1: © Cheeky Chops/Getty Images (adapted) Figure 2: © De-Ge/Getty Images Figure 3: ©Viktor Gmyria/123RF Figure 4 © MartinPrescott/Getty Images Figure 5: © Andrey Popov/Getty Images Figure 6: © Sturti/Getty Images Figure 7: © Andriy Popov/123rf Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary ......
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...de Henares station outside of Madrid (which killed 191 people). Two weeks later Mayfield was released when Spanish police made a positive match between the same fingerprints and another suspect, a match the FBI confirmed as correct. DNA analysis is a robust technique based on sound scientific principles, but even it can fall foul of human error. For 16 years, German...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades (Human Development Opportunities Programme, referred to as Oportunidades) is an anti-poverty initiative aimed at indigenous women in a remote mountain area in northern Mexico. Previous evaluations confirmed that indigenous people were participating effectively but it was unclear that the project was succeeding in its objectives of...
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...de-excited by collision with another particle before a photon can be emitted spontaneously. Such low densities cannot be achieved on Earth which is why these lines are not observed in the laboratory. When they are observed astronomically, we can be sure that they have been produced in a region of extremely low density. They are prominent in the spectra of active galaxies...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Now get started with Session 1...Session 1: Working with numbers: Introduction - With an understanding of numbers you have the basic skills you need to deal with much of...