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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...laws and the observations and so on. So they talk about all of that uncertainty and how you can’t be sure, which is fine – the devil’s in the details. RH: And it’s true, isn’t it, as well? TE: Of course there’s uncertainty, there’s always going to be uncertainty about future predictions. But at the same time they say but they’re very confident that the...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...laws of thermodynamics because the whole of the world runs on them but particularly because of the throughput of energy materials that powers the creation of value; that is what economies do. So I suppose I first got interested in this as a way of thinking about environmental economics in the mid-1980s, the late 1980s, when I was writing that book. And much later the...
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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...law researcher – do you think this affects their processes? Similarities Thomas and Charlotte both: look at where the article has come from – a reputable source or one where work is reviewed by experts consider the writer’s qualifications to be an expert on a subject review whether other experts or sources agree with the writer check that the arguments or...
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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...laws’. It is now commonplace to ‘reduce’ migration to an essentially mechanical process of ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors. The topic becomes disconnected from experience. In the text that follows, we explore an approach to using a song as a resource for thinking geographically (not merely mechanically) about migration. There are many ways in which music can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...laws, culture, education, beliefs, values, traditions, customs and norms, and we are socialised into ‘our’ world by dint of our birthplace, our primary caregivers and era...Introducing Union Black: 1.2 So, what is compassion? - The major difference between compassion and empathy is that empathy is about understanding the suffering of others, but it stops short of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...Cymraeg eraill ar y pwnc hwn https://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ society-politics-law/ openlearn-cymru/ openlearn-cymru-ewch-ach-dysgu-ymhellach cynnwys astudio cysylltiedig gan y Brifysgol Agored http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content y pwnc hwn a deunyddiau'r cwrs, sydd am ddim, ar OpenLearn http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ astudio o'r tu allan i'r DU? Mae gennym fyfyrwyr mewn dros gant o wledydd sy'n ......
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...Law (Head of OpenLearn). We are grateful to Dawn Partner, Dale Harry and Sofia Maruzza for production assistance, Katie Meade for Rights and Debbie Roberts (engagevisually.co.uk) for creative assistance in developing the visual summaries for this course. Parts of the course were redeveloped from S826 Introduction to mental health science. Except for third party materials...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...law firm providing legal advice). The customers (or clients) are the users of the outputs of the transformation process. The boundary drawn in Figure 3 around the transforming process can be thought of as the boundary of the organisation, so that the whole organisation is viewed as an operations system, with its customers external to it. This may be an appropriate way of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs