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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...research contribution The ‘Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690–1921’ project, a collaboration between The Open University and University College Dublin, has worked to identify and map over 360 permanent residential army barracks established on the island of Ireland from the 1690s...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...research study please visit www.keepmewalking.info​​ website. We know that sustained benefits come from regular engagement with activities (see more in Five Pillars of Ageing Well) but this is challenging at many levels for people living with dementia and their families and carers. This is even more difficult in the tomes of COVID-9. The Parks Trust is an independent...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of...
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Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...centre to illustrate this point. In this example, the health centre uses a computerised booking system and the patient may phone or visit the health centre to make an appointment. Therefore, the system includes a patient, a receptionist, a doctor, and a computerised booking system. The example shown in Figure 1 shows how this system could be represented using a system...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...centred on human reason and scientific knowledge. Humans became not only the subjects and objects of knowledge but a classificatory category, giving rise to one of history’s most divisive and destructive constructs – race. According to a widely influential and celebrated Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Native Americans were seen as the lowest of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...research essays. In order to do this, you will need to be able to read the most appropriate sources and use some of the theories and information they contain in your essays. You will learn to do this during the first two weeks of this course. This week you start by looking at the different texts that university students read. You will then learn to follow an active...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...children, the reasons for their business choices, and the challenges / rewards of balancing demands of work and family in this way. Friends, family and fools: A help or a hindrance? MariaLaura explores the complexities of running a small business with friends or family members. Making it up as you go along: Business as bricolage Bricolage refers to ‘making-do’ with...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...centres around large and small clumps of soil that hold together. Six explains that in healthy soils, it is the way the clumps set in place that protects microbial populations and also traps carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients. But what most makes soil a living system is biodiversity. Wall notes that “all the different organisms, whether it’s different groups of...
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