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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...communication: many of the applications that run on personal computers (PCs) and mobile phones help us communicate with each other, and also with other computers. Computer and telephone technologies have converged. The following quote from Danny Hillis, a pioneer in the development of some of the fastest and most powerful computers, gives some insight into how computers...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...communal ties kept small communities together. Around 1765 a group of Acadians, hearing of a land to settle where French was spoken, traveled to Louisiana by way of Saint Domingue (today Haiti) to build a new Acadia. They settled along the bayous of the Mississippi River and, by and by, were joined by other refuge-seeking Acadians. In intermingling with other ethnic...
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Article 15 mins
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...communication. A history of literacy campaigns has also shown that for literacy for all to be sustained, and for it to contribute to empowerment and human development, it must seen to have a social as well as an economic purpose. For example, Elwert (2001), in his analysis of the failure of literacy campaigns in promoting literacy for human development, argues that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...communities’, all three attitudes come together. This is always a good question to ask of developments in an argument. Consider, for a moment, Strawson's overall strategy. He wanted to take us away from the usual ground of argument between compatibilist and incompatibilist towards considering reactive attitudes. He started by talking about those reactive attitudes that...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...community action group, campaigning to save local hospital services. Vivian McConvey is the chief executive of VOYPIC (Voice of Young People in Care), a voluntary organisation in Northern Ireland. Vivian and Anita talk about their very different experiences of change. As you watch the videos, make some notes on the key pressures for change they mention, and the ways in...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...communication technology (ICT) have transformed many aspects of the teaching and learning environment. Less than a decade ago you would have had to visit one of our offices to look through printed teaching materials that were the main medium we used. Since then we have moved to having materials online, and through the Open University’s OpenLearn website, which allows...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...community is evident when we learn that he took jobs and names of country people from churchyards in the area, using them as inspiration for his fiction...Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd: 2 Locations - Far From the Madding Crowd was serialised in The Cornhill Magazine before it was published in book form. Hardy’s first novel, Under the Greenwood...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...community centres, national water conservation education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs