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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...feedback loop. Instead of this, we need to retrofit passive cooling measures (ones that don’t require energy to run), such as better insulation, external shutters to keep the sun out, and planting trees for shading both streets and buildings. [Building construction, bulldozer demolition] So what is the answer? There are solutions to reducing the huge impact of the built...
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Article 10 mins
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...feedback; doing exams; participating in tutorials; attending day schools, workshops and residential schools; participating in self-help groups; talking to a tutor; planning studies. Reflecting on the thinking of such a course involves can be useful in understanding which skills it has been designed to help you acquire and what will be looked for in assessments. As a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...la ligne jaune' (to cross the yellow line). Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde explains how language idioms are useful for language learners: "There is an expression in French to denote how an individual may have tastes and ways of looking at things that are not shared by others, ‘des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression...
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Article 5 mins
Anghydraddoldebau hiliol mewn iechyd: Effaith COVID-19 yng Nghymru a thu hwnt
Health, Sports & Psychology

Anghydraddoldebau hiliol mewn iechyd: Effaith COVID-19 yng Nghymru a thu hwnt

...De Cymru. Ers ymuno â Phrifysgol De Cymru yn 2002, mae wedi arwain timau o ymchwilwyr a chydweithio â chydweithwyr ar draws y DU ar ystod eang o astudiaethau a gweithgareddau addysgol, ble mae gwrando ar leisiau grwpiau poblogaeth pobl sydd ar yr ymylon, sy'n ymfudwyr ac o leiafrifoedd ethnig yn agwedd allweddol. Wedi ei hyfforddi fel cymdeithasegydd, mae ymchwil Dr...
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Video 20 mins
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...classes (1–4, where 4 is the highest class). The higher the class of a laser, the more stringent are the control measures required. An He–Ne laser, for example, is a Class 2 laser. A brief description of this category of laser (taken from information published by the Laser Institute of America) is as follows: A Class 2 laser or laser system must emit a visible laser...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...class that emerged as a result of this shift. Laurie Taylor: And it’s linked to – obviously to smaller families presumably because I mean if you’re having seven people, an average of seven people, you can hardly have separate bedrooms for everybody. I mean you’re talking about the average family I think declining to a 1900 average of about three and a half per –...
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Article 10 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...class system that crossed the Irish Sea centuries ago, went beyond the Pale and spread across the globe (Linebaugh, 2019). In Africa, the Irish have always been unequivocally White even when to the English in England they have been a bit less than White, and possibly a bit Black (Ralston, 1999). It is some of these personal and political complications of whiteness that I...
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Video 30 mins
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...Feedback Your answer might include some of the transformation processes and transformational changes listed in the table below. Transformational processes TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE MATERIAL PROCESSING INFORMATION PROCESSING CUSTOMER PROCESSING PHYSICAL e.g. Food processing in the hotel kitchen. INFORMATIONAL The hotel booking process transforms customer information....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs