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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...data CD disguised as a music disc, from which the materials were transferred to a laptop and then to the WikiLeaks servers for dissemination. The reports were widely published around the world and caused enormous diplomatic embarrassment for the United States government. Manning was eventually identified after confessing in an online chat to Adrian Lamo, who informed the...
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Article 5 mins
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...Data taken from the Demographic Health surveys of Kenya (2014), Malawi (2015-16), Mozambique (2011), Nigeria (2018), South Africa (2016), Tanzania (2015-16), Uganda (2016), Zambia (2018) and Zimbabwe (2015) that are nationally representative Source: STATCOMPILER tables Due to COVID-19 several countries have witnessed a fall in institutional deliveries. This is mainly due...
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Article 15 mins
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...data to be sure. Are they actually similar to Earth’s continents, and if they are, what does that mean for Venus? Could they have formed in a similar environment to Earth? There’s some speculation that Venus might still be volcanically active. If future missions find fresh lava flows, it might confirm that. I’ll use the data I gathered in the Icelandic basalt to...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...analysis of the five participants’ data. You will be reading about Sophie, a 30-year-old European New Zealander. Prior to entering the Masters teaching programme, Sophie had a bachelor’s degree double majoring in marketing and advertising and worked as an account manager. Read: from The paragraph which begins: ‘In terms of the kind of teacher she would like to be’...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...data from a thermally activated process in terms of Arrhenius's law identify the changes of phase taking place in a variety of critical phenomena provide examples of gradual, accelerating and sudden changes in the properties of materials that accompany changes in temperature...Engineering: The challenge of temperature: 1 Temperature – problem or solution? - 'Have you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...analysis template below. What do you believe you bring to a practice learning role (Strengths)? What development do you require to address any specific learning needs (Learning needs)? What might the role of practice supervisor/assessor add to your own professional (and personal) development (Opportunities)? What barriers might there be for you if taking on this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...data point to be confident of his forecast. For example, the Barclays Equity Gilt Study goes back to 1900, which is only 11 or so decades ago. In addition, economic conditions may have changed so that, even with a long historic time series, forecasts of future returns, volatilities and correlations may not be appropriate. Seismic events such as 2008 and 2016 have woken...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...analysis of opinion poll data around the referendum, John Curtice (2017) identified some key features that underpinned the difference between England and Scotland in the final vote. For example, the proportion of Scots who think the economy will suffer from leaving the EU was higher than in England and the issue of immigration was of less concern in Scotland. In addition,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs