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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...change in populations. This stimulated interest in evolutionary studies and scientists from a variety of biological fields contributed to the theories, most notably the zoologists Ernst Mayr and Sir Julian Huxley, the palaeontologist George G. Simpson and the botanist George Ledyard Stebbins. By 1950 acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was...
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...changing in the universities. In 1993, exactly one hundred years after the Geographical Association was set up to ‘further the study and teaching of geography’, Andrew Goudie declared there was a ‘chasm’ between university geography and school geography. Read his short article by clicking on the link below. Click 'view document' to open the file in a new window...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...changing – the world seems to have become a 'global village' where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. If we live in Britain or other parts of the westernised world, it's difficult to imagine being without all the networked infrastructure that plays a crucial part in our daily lives. This free course, IT in everyday life, is about how this...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...climate in which the project operates may change during the execution of the project. Unless someone – normally the project manager – institutes a formal way of noting, estimating and carrying out approved changes (change control) the project can deteriorate into chaos. In a more formal project setting, the responsibility for approving or rejecting changes is given to...
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...changed. Gloria Morrison had never heard of joint enterprise when her son’s best friend, Kenneth Alexander, was arrested following the murder of Michael Campbell in 2005. “I knew he hadn’t committed a murder…so I thought he was going to be fined. I didn’t actually attend court,” she says. Yet weeks later, to the disbelief of all who knew him, Kenneth was...
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...climate and environmental justice perspective. Reducing socio-economic and transport access inequalities; the experience of The Parks Trust The Parks Trust, if you don’t already know, is a self-financing charity that cares for 6000 acres of parks and greenspace in Milton Keynes. The Parks Trust understands public parks are an amazing resource for health and wellbeing...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...change in the pursuit of social goals and objectives, as opposed to financial or other objectives. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B324 Marketing and society...Social marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and explain the meaning and nature of social marketing analyse social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
A brief history of advertising
Money & Business

A brief history of advertising

...changed over the years. We take a look back in time, from the examples in Pompeii preserved in volcanic ash, to the digital era of today...Find out more about The Open University's Business and Management courses In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury. But advertising goes back much...