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What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...human behaviour online through ‘one computer one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative...
Religion Today
History & The Arts

Religion Today

...humanity in the eyes of God and some testaments by the congregation of Milton Keynes covenant fellowship. Assemblies of God church in prayer Congregation of the Assemblies of God church having a church service. Worship service of the Rhema church Rhema church congregation at prayer during a service, including hymns and preaching. Cassandra, the village witch Cassandra...
Audio 2 hrs 34 mins
Analysing European Romanticism
History & The Arts

Analysing European Romanticism

...human experience and transcendence from the purely rational. This succinct discussion contextualises that shift. Romanticism and the religious crisis Once more reacting against the Enlightenment, Romantic philosophy eschewed traditional religion, rejecting historical claims in favour of modern reason and re-appraisal of biblical texts. Urbanity and romantic irony The...
Exploring Philosophy
History & The Arts

Exploring Philosophy

...obligation by living within that state. Courage to refuse Can citizens decide which laws to follow for moral reasons? Descartes, doubt and knowledge A discussion about how Descartes used doubt as a means to clarifying his understanding of the world. Cartesian dualism Dualism suggests that human beings are made of two independent substances, the mind and the body....
Audio 2 hrs 16 mins
The Magic of Meteorites
Science, Maths & Technology

The Magic of Meteorites

...resources on meteorites… ...On February 28th 2021 a bright fireball streaked across the night sky of the United Kingdom, depositing rocky fragments, known as meteorites, in Gloucestershire, England. After a member of the public came forward to report that some of this special space rock had landed on their property, an Open University scientist was quickly on the scene...
Art history in Wales
Education & Development

Art history in Wales

...resources together in a way that was valid, and also meaningful to them. I live in Wales and, if I was studying the module, I would be interested in looking at aspects of Art History and how it relates to the Welsh context. I’ve always had an interest in Art and History, and in fact have studied Masters in both History and Art History. How a culture interacts with art...
Fossil soft parts
Science, Maths & Technology

Fossil soft parts

...resource and the activity of microbes recycles 90% or more of the organic matter in the environment (including dead organisms) before they are buried in the sediment. Scavenging organisms also contribute to the destruction of dead organisms. These feed on the flesh and in doing so, the hard parts may also be scattered, damaged or destroyed. Physical damage Physical damage...
Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...resources be managed? What can guarantee equality and fairness? What kind of good change do you want? [Introducing Global Development] The courses can be studied independently, but we recommend you start with Introducing global development and then follow this with Introducing key global development challenges. This content is associated with the Open University courses...