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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...education would be out of work if it didn't! From my own experience I can say without hesitation that understanding how music works, learning how it's put together, can indeed enrich the listening experience and make one fully appreciate the finer details of what makes music 'tick'. I'm going to look at different ways of encouraging you to develop your powers of musical...
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...technology, such as steam powered cranes, also helped but it was their enlightened boss that made the big difference in improving working conditions. The rhetoric embedded within rising trade unionism never turned into the class war that was feared and the Manchester Ship Canal successfully opened as the largest ship canal in the world. The canal engineers [Cogs, winches...
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...technology of computers. Each computer is linked to the Internet on which the results are published world wide for free with no restrictions on their use or distribution. Analysing sections of DNA Fragments of DNA have to be propagated, i.e., large numbers of copies made of individual DNA fragments, generally grown up as sections of DNA in bacteria, or in the test tube,...
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...technologies for UK education and research: ‘the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society’ (Jisc, 2015). ‘Digital literacy’ includes the skills everyone needs to be effective online, whether it’s searching efficiently, evaluating online information, communicating and sharing, or finding the right digital or online...
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...education and health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC...
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...educate, inform and engage you but to provoke discussion, debate, and action from you. We need to see this as a global problem but one where local action, multiplied millions of times in homes and communities across the world can make a difference. Discover more about the wider issue of sustainability in our interactive Sustainability Hub, featuring more articles plus...
World-Changing Women: Cynisca
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Cynisca

...education and women had freedom of movement. In addition, Spartan women were discouraged from spending time on household activities and encouraged to participate in active physical exercise. Their revealing sportswear earned them the nick-name 'thigh-showers'. However, at Olympia, women were still not allowed to participate in the most prestigious games festival in the...
The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...educational challenge for myself. I would consider studying the OpenLearn courses below to help me discover and understand more about the following: What will make me an effective student and how best to learn online and become a distance learning student. How the topics I’m interested in might overlap and relate to each other. Learning about the past and what has been...