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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...history of prisoner education, looks at the history of prison education in the British Isles. It will examine the motivations behind the provision of education, the types of learning that were offered and the experiences of prisoners over the first 100 years of education in prisons...Schemes to improve the literacy and numeracy of prisoners, and often to teach them more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...history of the telegram tell us about our own hopes and fears of modern technologies? ...Find out about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Fine specimen of a real antique Morse code telegraph machine.] An antique Morse code telegraph machine The word 'telegram' may conjure up the image of a frayed yellowing document, containing a message about a...
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Article 5 mins
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

When was artificial intelligence (AI) first developed? This article looks at the first wave of AI - in particular ELIZA, one of the very first chatbots...This dialogue in the GIF below appeared in January 1966 scientific article written by the MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum. It appears to be a session between a patient and their sympathetic psychotherapist who went by...
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Article 5 mins
Art history: modern and contemporary
History & The Arts

Art history: modern and contemporary

Baffled by modern art and architecture? You’re not alone! This collection gives new insight into today’s shifting kaleidoscope of visual culture by placing it in the context of the developments of the 19th and 20th century. In the mid 19th century there was a growing realisation that everything had changed. Industry was booming, and the speed of life increasing....
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Audio 31 mins
Art history: C17th to C19th
History & The Arts

Art history: C17th to C19th

This collection transports you to Europe of 1600 to 1850. Many of the foundations of European culture were being laid: commerce, arts institutions, art displays, terraced houses … even tattooing. Things we now take for granted in the fabric of our lives. Yet here we glimpse them through the eyes of a society for whom they weren’t yet set in stone. The shape of the...
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Video 18 mins
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...family; there is, however, a long history of concern that adult conversations can dominate, and adult views and opinions can silence those of children. You will revisit in more detail later why this might happen, but first you will spend some time focusing on children. An important underpinning principle of the need to listen to children, not just in the social work arena...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs