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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...Open University (OU) began broadcasting its first lectures over BBC television and radio, there were many reasons to discount its importance. For one thing, the concept of providing higher education at a distance wasn’t new: the first correspondence course, teaching shorthand, was offered in the 1700s; the University of London began offering distance-learning degrees to...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...Open University, research into Level 1 Computing modules revealed the structural and institutional barriers behind the degree awarding gap and practical ways to close it...The COVID-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on the entrenched inequalities that shape the educational experiences of ethnic minority students in UK higher education. At The Open University, our...
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Museums in contemporary society
History & The Arts

Museums in contemporary society

...sources of authority on the objects in their care, museums now have to justify their decisions to the government, to their audiences, sometimes even to vociferous pagans. The challenge is to reach out to new audiences and devise new ways of communicating with them. The rewards are many: to maintain status and respect, to win hearts and influence people, even to foster a...
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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...sources? Find out with our short animations. ...Video 1: How do historians know about the past? Video Transcript How do historians know about the past? For example, who invented the first modern day steam locomotive? Well, we know that was Robert Stephenson and his Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive built in 1829. How do we know this? We have the letters Robert wrote to his...
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Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...source, doublet and vortex), and suitable combinations of these are used to model more complicated flows. Section 4 introduces the idea of differentiation following the motion, and Euler’s equation is developed in Section 5...This free course examines the basic kinematics of two-dimensional fluid flows. Section 1 introduces the differential equations for pathlines...
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Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics

...sources can be used to decolonise the mathematics curriculum...Transcript Much of the mathematics taught at undergraduate level is named for, or attributed to, male European mathematicians of the nineteenth century. This helps to reinforce the mistaken notion that mathematics is a white male preserve. Since there is little room in Open University mathematics teaching to...
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The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill
History & The Arts

The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill

...Open University. Discover more about her work. References, credits and acknowledgments This video was written and presented by Professor Rosalind Crone and produced by The Open University in Wales. With thanks to Beaumaris Town Council for permission to film at Beaumaris Goal. Images Several illustrations taken from The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison...
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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...sources and repositories of open academic content, annotation tools that support critical reading and interpretation, knowledge mapping tools that connect and synthesise ideas, and content management systems that facilitate easy citations and technologies to detect plagiarism. There are also various studies about technologies to detect plagiarism and cheating with the...
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