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Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...social welfare benefits and clearing 450,000 hectares of the invasive plants. The diagramming techniques develop skills in understanding complex situations of intervention and revealing significant challenges as well as opportunities of development intervention. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing and IT courses...Diagramming for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...social interactions and relationships irrespective of the outcome of the innovation and/or (2) innovation to address a social need. * Sociotechnical Refers to factors and features of technology in its social context. * Sociotechnical systems Complex systems with elements such as goods, services, buildings and infrastructures, as well as accepted ways of doing things...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...social movement like Black Lives Matter, nor did it connect with, or was motivated by, the experiences and voice of former slaves, as was sometimes the case in the USA anti-slavery movement during the mid-1800s. If we are looking for inspiration when challenging legal repression, dehumanisation and state coercion, then it is to the lived experiences and testimonies of...
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Article 20 mins
The Switch tells us a lot about Nintendo
Science, Maths & Technology

The Switch tells us a lot about Nintendo

...interactions with a device more intuitive and easier to learn. In reality, the Power Glove was a failure. The glove was tracked using an ultrasonic sensor rather than the infrared sensors used for motion capture today. And using sound rather than light to track movement meant the signal was too slow and created latency issues that made the glove seem sluggish and...
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Video 5 mins
How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...interactive apps can ensure that all children expand their reading range but they must be high quality. Professor Natalia Kucirkova explains more...Reading on screen has received a lot of bad press for its damaging effect on readers’ concentration levels. However, digital books, such as e-books and interactive apps, can meaningfully expand the reading repertoire of...
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Article 10 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...interact with the world around us by interpreting information collected by our sense organs and providing a means by which this can affect our behaviour. Of course, whilst these functions are of great interest, they are often not the big questions asked about the brain. These big questions centre around how our brain allows us to think original thoughts, learn new...
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Article 1 hr
Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...social (and that means realms of the cultural, the economic and the political) are important to understanding both how environmental issues come about, and also leading us towards the kinds of things that we might be able to do in the future - in order to redress, affect, modify, improve our environmental futures. Michael: Okay. This is a Second Level module that’s...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...interact, it’s important to realise that a fig isn’t a fruit in the way that apples, cherries or plums are. Instead it starts out as a complicated and unique flower head. Think of a dandelion flower. Each of those lovely yellow petals is in fact a tiny individual flower with all the petals joined into a narrow tube. Now imagine that same dandelion flower never opened;...
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Article 15 mins