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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...projects such as Community Action: MK. So if MK is not a city, just what turns a town into one? The Department of Culture, Media and Sport were deliberately vague when defining the criteria for city status for the 2012 competition, but there are a few common assumptions. It has often been thought that the presence of an Anglican cathedral signifies city status. However...
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Article 15 mins
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...project turned out to be a failure. According to legend, one high-profile demonstration translated the English phrase: "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” into Russian and then back into English to produce: "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten”. One of highest profile failures of this first wave of AI lay the perceptron. First unveiled in 1958, the...
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Article 5 mins
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...Introduction - This course considers the issues that are important when starting up or running a small business in a rural environment. Traditional business models apply to running a business in any location. This course will introduce you to some concepts that will help you work out what you want to do with your business idea. It will also ask you to consider the impact...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...project also involved social work students, social work managers and service users. Figure 3 below details the data that was collected for this research study. [A visual diagram of eight boxes split into two rows.] Figure 3 The Writing in Social Work Practice (WiSP) Research Project The Open University social work team worked with a group of people who have experience of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Introduction: Introduction - This free course, Introducing social care and social work, will introduce you to different social care and social work practitioner roles. It will develop your understanding of the context in which social care and social work take place in the United Kingdom (UK). Social work and social care practitioners have a vital role in supporting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...projects such as the construction of canals and railways. Irish labour would help to meet this demand. Changes in the agricultural sector also incentivised Irish emigration. Given Ireland’s colonial past, most of the land was held by a relatively small number of Anglo-Irish landlords who derived a significant portion of their income through rents from tenant farmers....
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The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...project with The Open University and Park's Trust...The Open University and The Parks Trust have been working together on a joint project ‘The Keepmewalking Programme’ to investigate the barriers and facilitators to walking for people living with dementia and their carers. We were trying to understand what works to keep people with dementia and their carers engaging...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we decided it needed...
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