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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...project. Yet at the same time, both the anniversary and Fry’s retreat from public life, call for a reconsideration of exactly what is being remembered and what should be commemorated. Who was Elizabeth Fry? Born Elizabeth Gurney on 21 May 1780 at Norwich, she was one of twelve children born into the wealthy merchant and banking Gurney family, and spent most of her...
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Article 15 mins
Black Blue Plaques
Languages

Black Blue Plaques

...under-representation in the public space and imagination. Transcript Featuring the work of Black History Walks, the Nubian Jak Community Trust, and English Heritage, and narrated by Karen Arthur. With thanks to the BAAL Applying Linguistics fund for support for the project. Written, produced and directed by: Lab Ky Mo, Philip Seargeant, Korina Giaxoglou and Frank Monaghan...
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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...project illustrates how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes. This is computing that works with your own creativity rather than replacing it –...
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Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...management and computing to creative arts and languages. Created by our leading OU academics, and with many courses endorsed by leading industry partners, you can be confident in getting world-class learning and practical skills that you can immediately apply in the real world. Julia Pennacchia, who studied a short course with the OU, said: From the very start of the...
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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...projects with your manager at the pub with a trusted friend who works in an area you’d like to explore. Activity 6 Thinking about your own career narrative Timing: Allow about 5 minutes. Choose a scenario where you might be sharing your career narrative, and decide who you will be sharing it with, e.g. chatting to someone at a sector networking event. Now make a note of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...Introduction - Unleash your creativity and discover the fun of designing with code in this free OpenLearn course, Algorithmic Design. In this hands-on course, you’ll learn to think algorithmically and explore the aesthetics of code through playful experimentation with JavaScript and the p5.js library. You’ll engage with design ideas such as repetition, modularity, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...management, business, and project management are helpful for careers in IoE. Computer-aided design (CAD), drafting, math, and physics are applicable and show a diverse education, which is perfect for an IoE career. The Open University is part of the Cisco Networking Academy programme. You can find out more about our Cisco courses and also explore our full computing...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...introduction of smoking bans, there is a growing recognition that social marketing has a role to play in achieving a wide range of social goals. This free course, Social marketing, examines the nature of social marketing and how the adoption of marketing concepts, frameworks and techniques developed for commercial marketers can be applied to the solution of social...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs