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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...data to VW’s response to whether this problem extends to the car industry as a whole. The BBC provided a nice primer for understanding the full breadth of this scandal in their article “Volkswagen: The Scandal Explained”. On a purely business level, this event has created unprecedented challenges for the leaders of VW. Already, both the US and Switzerland has...
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Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works
Education & Development

Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works

...data they daily collect on users. In my research work with colleagues, I have argued for a focus on the rigour and validity of various research types. New initiatives, such as the International Certification of Evidence of Impact in Education, have begun to consolidate the different research approaches, standards and certifications related to evidence of EdTech impact...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...data collected by anyone – perhaps even you! If you are interested, check out the resources below. Further resources Butterfly Conservation - Volunteering The Parks Trust Milton Keynes - Volunteering UKBMS – UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme Study with The Open University S295 The Biology of Survival S397 Terrestrial Ecosystems SDT 306 Environment: responding to change...
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Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...analysis of the SST indicates the three main forms that a child’s internal working model can take. A child with a Type A attachment has a rather troubled attachment to her parent. She is often not upset at separation, and tends not to get close to her parent even when they are reunited after a separation. Often, she turns away from, rather than towards, the parent. She...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...Data transferred straight from the research area to the book will simply remain data, it will be imaginatively inert.’ And I know that from my own in the sense that I never write worse than when I’ve got the textbook in the other hand, because try as I will to send it through my mind it has a strange way of going straight in through my eyes and out on to the page and...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...data on the composition of the minerals. For example, I use electron microscopes to look in detail at the textures of ice samples. I look at where different types of salts accumulate and how the minerals are distributed within the ice, because that might have implications for how much fluid is transported up through the ice or how much drains back down into the oceans of...
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...data you aim to generate. Mostly, this falls into two broad categories, qualitative and quantitative (sometimes these can be mixed). Many academics question this distinction and suggest the methodology categories are better understood as unstructured or structured. For example, let’s imagine you are asking a group of people about their sugary snack preferences. You may...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...data and insights to better manage and report on their carbon impact, which links with their broader sustainability strategy. From the employee perspective, if implemented carefully, this can come across less as invasive activity tracking and monitoring, but rather a joined-up approach to help reduce their, and their employer’s collective environmental impact. Further,...
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