Education & Development
Making a difference
Poster by Dr Hilary Lindsay on their Doctorate in Education. ...[Abstract crop of a geometric, futuristic glass item] Making a difference by Hilary Lindsay
Digital & Computing
Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?
...resources, which include all the resources needed to perceive things in our vision, understand what we hear, and plan for upcoming actions. When driving, your workload may be relatively manageable, yet adding a phone conversation increases that workload. If the demands of driving suddenly increase –- for example when the vehicle ahead brakes sharply –- your workload...
Science, Maths & Technology
The benefits of a longer product life
...resourcefulness is reflected in products that last longer, are adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we create, use, and dispose of our everyday stuff. By extending the utility of our products, we reduce wastes, such as carbon emissions, across the whole product...
History & The Arts
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Digital approaches: Introduction - During Week 1, you learned about the fundamental elements of digital humanities research, such as digitisation, metadata and born-digital data. During Week 2, you will examine some ways in which Humanities researchers can...
Education & Development
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students and the degree awarding gap collection
Explore this video and collection of articles looking at the degree awarding gap and the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students in higher education. ...Transcript
Society, Politics & Law
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
...open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining a ‘safe distance’ from that process. Autoethnography reverses this dynamic as it sees the researcher turn the ‘lens’ on themselves, recounting their own stories and...
Money & Business
Empowering communities
...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Education & Development
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
...Open University. It has even given her ideas of ways of working and initiatives that could be implemented in her own team. Catherine’s volunteering doesn’t come with a significant time commitment; she estimates she spends a couple of hours every couple of months preparing for and attending meetings, with some additional activities on an ad hoc basis. The main...