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On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...technology improving at a greater rate there, than in it was in Britain. A new medium is born On the 27th January 1926 in Soho, London, John Logie Baird was making history by successfully demonstrating his primitive television system to a public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular...
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Article 15 mins
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...technologies...Supporting children and young people's wellbeing: 1 Wellbeing in today’s society - During the last decade a number of media reports, newspaper articles and debates on social media have shared alarming statistics, which suggest that children and young people in the United Kingdom are increasingly unhappy and that their wellbeing is potentially at risk. An...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...technologies that are used to harness the power of solar energy discuss the positive and negative aspects of solar energy in relation to natural and human aspects of the environment...Energy resources: Solar energy: 1 Solar energy - The Sun will radiate energy until it ceases thermonuclear fusion, in around 5 billion years. The solar power that enters the Earth's system...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...education, training and experience. Skills such as management, financial planning, mathematical aptitude and business strategy all fall within the scope of the professional engineer. This course does not attempt to teach these skills, but within it you will find pointers towards them and their significance in the engineering context. This OpenLearn course provides a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women. ...Google ‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Women’. Now have a look at ‘Professional Hairstyles for Women’. Notice anything? In a popular magazine article about the understudied relationship between Black women and their hair,...
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Article 5 mins
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...technologies are now implicated in complicated and contradictory ways, in every stage of the refugee journey. But it also shows the creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new lives through...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...technological realities of learning and studying. Three approaches, or a mixture of them, may help us to solve the dilemma: It is essential there are clear definitions of what constitutes good and acceptable academic practice in the respective assessment context. Rules for the uses of translation tools and citations, and established formal policies regarding student use...
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Article 5 mins
British Science Week
Science, Maths & Technology

British Science Week

...technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK for people of all ages, coordinated by the British Science Association. To find out what is going on across the UK to celebrate, visit the British Science Week Event Calendar and keep up to date by following British Science Week on Twitter. To celebrate we have compiled a range of FREE resources for you...
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Article 1 hr 30 mins