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Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...system is even more essential in design than in other disciplines. Design isn’t done in a vacuum. Ultimately, you’ll be designing for others, whether you’re pursuing a design career or integrating design principles into your existing role (a practice becoming increasingly common in healthcare, finance, government, education, and various service industries). Remote...
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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...systems and educational practices or amplifying oppressed voices) and articulate political critique and push for social justice and decolonisation. With rising social inequalities, global threats like the resurgence of fascism, genocides and the climate collapse, the relationship between Hip Hop and the Institution will only become thornier, and so the conference has laid...
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Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...systems used in the UK – The Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks, and this week will look in particular at measuring length. Watch the course author Maria Townsend introduce Week 1: Maria Townsend: This is my height measured in books, not a common...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...systems. The emergence of anthropogenic global warming as a major threat steered her research to focus on biological impacts of climate change in natural systems. Her research spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She works actively with governmental agencies and...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...systems, but just at an incredible scale. This scale multiplies the cloud’s impact, both good and bad. Our job at an organisational IT level is to know how to recognise and minimise the negative, while promoting and accelerating the good. This article looks at just some of the ways cloud contributes to our digital carbon footprints from processing workloads to the...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...system is to denounce or condemn particular actions and to try to prevent them from happening again, then imprisonment is not the most efficient means of achieving these goals. Prison environments are full of power imbalances, racial and sexual violence, discrimination and hierarchical social relationships. All of these elements of the prison environment can, therefore,...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...system, not principally for climate reasons but for air pollution reasons. Fossil fuels are both climate pollutants but they are also the main cause of localised air pollution and China’s cities are choking under diesel from cars and coal from nearby coal-fired power stations and China’s air quality is terrible, it has awful health effects. Many millions of people...
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Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...system and keep dialysis machines running. When we are online, the algorithms from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook/Meta let us find information, recommend products and provide news based on what we like and who we are. But why should designers care about algorithms? Well, today design can’t be separated from computation. Algorithms can be used creatively...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs