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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...account manager who was able to provide us with a wealth of advice as to what Jisc could provide us with to get us started. They also were able to provide us with case studies and feedback from other institutions who had already done what we were trying to do. They have communities of practice that we were able to join and to learn from the experiences of others. The key...
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...accounts of art works. This will involve using all four points of the Study Diamond to: find a framework for analysing art texts better understand some of the reactions to art works shortlisted for the Turner Prize. In the next section, you'll start work on point 1 above, using the effects point of the Study Diamond to help you begin interpreting some Turner Prize-related...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...account at all times when practising as an engineer. We accept risk as part of everyday life so there is a need to balance the risks of an activity against the benefits that it brings. This free course, Assessing risk in engineering, work and life, investigates how we can manage risks at work, in the home and in the wider community. Risk is tied in with accidents so it is...
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...account the similarities and differences that will arise within a ‘family of practices’. In this way, we will continue to develop our ability to recognise and discriminate between the different kinds of provision on offer to young people...The range of work with young people: Examining diversity - By now you will be aware that work with young people uses a variety of...
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...account for the shortage of named artists in Byzantium. This, however, began to change with the Renaissance appreciation of artists with an outreach even to Byzantine icon painters who started signing their work (Lymberopoulou, 2007c, p. 175)...Week 1: Introducing the Byzantine icon: 3.4 Secular II: Icons in the market - It should be clear by now that icons are the most...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...account, to assess their claims, and to call out when they’re not telling it straight. TONY THORNE: And this is where I think that the mainstream media, again, whichever side you’re on, whether you’re pro-Brexit, pro-Trump, pro-Boris Johnson, pro-Theresa May, or pro-Jeremy Corbin, the mainstream media has been complicit in a sense in all of these untruths and...
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...account, you must be aged 13 years or over. Adults may want to use their own OpenLearn account to supervise younger learners on the course, and assist with the experiments. All of the experiments can be carried out with items you would find in a typical kitchen, but the Introduction to Week 1 provides a full equipment list. This OpenLearn science course was produced with...
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...account for the Earth’s rotation round the sun and can be ignored for most engineering purposes.) Consider an object or element of something moving on or near the Earth’s surface directly from north to south, shown red in Figure 6. The something could be a chunk of sea, air, a ship, artillery shell, etc. The object has a velocity u and is at a latitude angle of theta...