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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...care about the digital world, viewing it perhaps as a waste of time. Yet whether we are aware of it or not, digital information is flowing constantly around us. Consider a computer that is connected to the internet – the one you are using to study this course, for example. This may be a computer you use at home, in a library or at work; you may use it on the move or in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
History & The Arts

Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

...adult, he felt that he could never live up to Johnny Castle’s ‘vision of almost-perfect masculinity’. Naish also presents the universality of the film in its evocation of family holidays and the awkwardness of approaching a potential love interest, both of which he compares to episodes from his own life growing up in Britain. The essay is an absorbing account of his...
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Article 5 mins
The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...adults, the wingless males, which develop first, visit the growing females, fertilise them and, as their dying act, tunnel out of the fig. When the females grow to maturity, they work their way out of their growth chamber, picking up pollen from other flowers, and exit through the holes left by their male siblings. Seeds develop in the pollinated flowers, the fig matures...
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Article 15 mins
Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Adult Health in Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way...
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Video 5 mins
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...adults. It’s tremendous! The programme they made about clearing plastic out of the ocean was as hard hitting as you could possibly get, and I simply have never understood why the broadcasters think it’s alright to tell children about these things but somehow adults can’t deal with it. What is good about programmes like The Octonauts and Hugh’s Fish Fight? Well,...
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Video 20 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...adults. In contrast, boys were encouraged to play more actively, with toy weapons and footballs, to support an adult, masculine role as protector of the family and provider. This underpinning of gender stereotyping continued into the education system, where girls were taught different subjects from boys, and reading books mostly featured male protagonists with women...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...careful control of tasks. Historically, this was referred to as ‘scientific management’ because it was felt that the manager's role was like that of a scientist, to control, or at least intervene in, processes in order to change them. For the ‘scientific’ manager, the desired change in these processes was an improvement in efficiency in the way in which they...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...cared to stare into a shop window could examine and criticise his portrait extremely repulsive to him. I remember that this shyness of his was the only occasion of anything approaching a quarrel between us. I had an idle trick of drawing caricatures when I was a child, and one day when he was writing some letters I began to make a picture of him on the back of an...
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Article 10 mins