Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - interviews and focus groups
Discover how researchers use interviews and focus groups to get an in depth understanding of people’s experiences...Transcript.
Science, Maths & Technology
The Four Generations of Computers
...Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, we see an array of fascinating machines and learn about them along the way. This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life... Colossus: The World's First Electronic Computer A look at the Colossus computer at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Elliott 803: Second Generation Computers...
History & The Arts
Heritage, whose heritage?
...Centre at Stonehenge has been a battleground, exposing conflicting interests, and revealing the challenges that can lie behind the preservation of heritage sites. This album explores how different values and perceptions of heritage affect how the past is safeguarded, examining the British preoccupation with the built environment. Heritage can impart a sense of national...
Society, Politics & Law
Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?
...children and Syrian refugee children.] During her trip to Jordan, Prime Minister Theresa May visited Al-Zahra School, a school that integrates Jordanian children and Syrian refugee children. With Theresa May’s campaign visits being described by one journalist this week as “familiar neuron crushing dullness”, we shouldn’t have been expecting too much excitement...
Society, Politics & Law
The Weavers’ Uprising and Chatterton Massacre
...children. Click here to explore the digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University: Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826 map The Teaching Toolkit The story of the 1826 weavers uprising reveals how protest has long been part of British history and how social change has often come at great cost. At present, events like the uprising and...
History & The Arts
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
...research, arts, culture, audience participation and education might learn from each other. Movement and Identity On 21st May 2019 a symposium on Movement and Identity with OU researchers from the Justice, Borders, Rights Research Stream on Citizenship and Governance explored from various disciplinary and artistic perspectives, issues of migration, citizenship and...
OpenLearn Ireland
Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
...children are still, Only a quick coo of gladness from Will. The sheeling no longer seems empty or bare, For, clothed in soft raiment, the mother stands there. They gather around her, they cling to her dress; She rains down soft kisses for each shy caress. Her light, loving touches smooth out tangled locks, And, pressed to her bosom, the baby she rocks. He lies in his cot,...
Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - sampling
Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make. ...Transcript.