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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues past and present in the West of Ireland and provide a snapshot of changes to aspects of economy and society in two Irish case study areas first looked at by Pat Jess in 1983: the area around Glencolmcille in Southwest Donegal and the coastal town of Killala...
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Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...OU students and staff, and provides access to a wide range of high-quality resources, including books, journals, images, videos and music. It is also possible to take out your own individual subscription to online journals and magazines for a fee. Specialist search engines Specialist search engines can be useful. For example, Google Scholar is useful for tracking down...
‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...student, Suzi Collins worked in a bar in Fife. Here she recounts her personal experience with sexual harrassment in the workplace...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Setting the Scene Two old guys at the bar where I was working: “Whaur’s ma New Year’s kiss then?” “Aye, and whaur’s mine?” “No thank you,”...
Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation is presented accurately and clearly. The PDF of this extract thus shows the content exactly as it would be seen by an Open University student. However, the extract isn't entirely representative of the module materials, because there are no explicit references to use of...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to algebra
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to algebra

...students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation is presented accurately and clearly. The PDF of this extract thus shows the content exactly as it would be seen by an Open University student. However, the extract isn't entirely representative of the module materials, because there are no explicit references to use of...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...become more apparent as we explore the different types of interviews and conversations you might undertake in your inquiry. Not all questions are answered by information – sometimes you will get opinions or feelings – and not all conversations are formal interviews with an interviewee, and so I’ll use the one term respondent to capture all the people that you’ll...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...OU/BBC co-production 'The Search for a New Earth' - another great example of his ability to communicate science to the masses and make it accessible. See the box below: Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and later confined to a wheelchair and forced to communicate via a computerised...
The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...becomes the initial infected network of the state. The complete initial network is constructed by adding additional susceptible nodes so that the number of nodes matches the population of the state. We then simulate the growth of this network under specified parameters. We also look at the healthcare capacity in India across different states and analyse the overall...