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A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...become an organ donor and haven’t recorded an opt out decision. They remain at the centre of the decision-making process about organ donation and are asked to confirm consent for each specific organ and tissue donation. The sharing of donor families’ lived experience To share what it is like to go through this process, we made a film about organ donation with two...
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Video 15 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...become the most valuable asset on Earth while people are increasingly going without food and shelter. How can we design for people to have a home, while also regenerating the living systems on which we depend?...Like other wealthy countries, the UK now has swelling numbers of people whose needs for the basics – food and shelter – are not being met. The proportion of...
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Article 5 mins
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide; Shelley’s wife drowned herself in the Serpentine; Mary and Shelley married and had a third baby, another Clara, in 1817, but she died the following year. Their grief was compounded when their precious William died of malaria in 1819. In his jotting book Percy wrote: My dearest M. wherefore hast thou gone And left me...
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Article 10 mins
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...students sat at the back behind a black curtain… The thought of my grandmother in a burqa is foreign to me. No one in our family now ever covers their heads or faces. When I asked my grandmother why, she replied, ‘We did so you wouldn’t have to.’ My great-grandfather, she explained, had not supported the cloistering of women, which in South Asia is called purdah...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...student accommodation in association with a private company who have built the student facilities. Other areas of the suburb are still ‘work-in-progress’. Next to the new block of flats is an area of cleared land which is awaiting new house building, where children have started to gather to play football and socialise. On the border of the wasteland is an uninhabited...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...becomes a development of that, and at its worst I suppose it's a series of repeats of the same idea without really developing it. Trevor Herbert Right George, at this point I think we have to come clean and own up to the fact that I've set you a task in which you are asked to... prepare a fairly short melody with very simple harmonies specifically in C major, specifically...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...becoming less prone to the evolving software demands – thereby, extending their usable lifetimes. How much carbon in the cloud?We can begin to understand the carbon impact of data centres by analysing their energy use. Cloud technologies live in data centres, and data centres are estimated to account for 1% to 1.5% of global energy consumption. The data transmission...
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Article 5 mins