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Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...Social Sciences courses. Background In 2021 Gwen McNeil, an RMT rep based at Scotrail’s Perth depot, produced a short video story of her time as a trade union rep on the railway in Scotland. The video story comprises a selection of images captured by Gwen during her travels across the Scotrail network (and a few from beyond the Scotrail network!). Information about the...
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...work -‘Impossible Peace’. Our focus now is the period 2005/10, and what happened after the IRA decision to end its armed campaign at 4pm on Thursday, July 28th 2005...[Impossible Peace 2: Dismantling the wars collection trailer] Click here to download the video transcript (docx) A World of War -power, ego and little leadership [Photo of Brian Rowan, a former BBC...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...social aspects of the work we do, we could be reinforcing inequality. That would be sad, because space is a shared human … space, isn’t it? I've never met a person who hates space. Everyone on the planet has a relationship to space. That’s heart-warming. When I look up at the stars, I feel humble in that grandness. I am part of the universe experiencing the...
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Celebrating festivals from the past and present
History & The Arts

Celebrating festivals from the past and present

...Social Sciences (FASS) has curated a virtual festival to showcase and celebrate some of the lesser-known festivals of the past and present. Explore festivals dating back to Ancient Greece and Rome, discover the rise of literary festivals and ‘protestivals’, plus take a look at two very different sides to Glastonbury...What thoughts and images are evoked when you think...
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What is OpenLearn Scotland?
Society, Politics & Law

What is OpenLearn Scotland?

...social care and social sciences. The collection of FREE courses, academic insights via articles, interactive videos and audio, and broadcast material as a whole demonstrates The Open University's commitment to delivering a curriculum that is appropriate for the differing requirements of each of the countries within the United Kingdom. These open educational resources have...
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London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi
Nature & Environment

London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi

...work on the street in both cities, those who drive taxis, are runners, work professionally to tackle air pollution, and those who live with its health consequences. Over 4,000 people are thought to have died in London’s 1952 smog. By today 8,700 people in London will have died prematurely in 2017 because of major air pollutants, with more than one person an hour dying...
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Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...working-class industrial city, whose best days were behind it, the city fathers of Sheffield hoped that Park Hill would signal the rejuvenation of the town and provide quality homes in a deprived area. Streets in the Sky The council turned to two young Modernists to realise their vision. Ivor Smith and Jack Lynn were graduates of the Architectural Association and heavily...
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Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...work of a real-life human, and a machine… so you tell us!...We fed the same article brief - write a 250-word article, titled 'The risks versus the rewards of using AI in higher education in 2024' - into both ChatGPT and an Open University academic. We wanted to find out if it was easy to spot the difference between the work generated by a human - Mike Richards of the...
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