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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...system, a subset of what we call feedbacks that we think are governing the temperature that are in the more physical ocean atmosphere parts of the climate, where our best guess might still be they could give you 3 degrees warming if you doubled the carbon level in the atmosphere, but if we think about longer-term parts of the system, the melt of ice sheets, the response...
Markets in crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Markets in crisis

...systems. Economist and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen along with leading experts in the field discuss re-thinking the social, economic and political systems we have in place today. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Markets in Crisis A short introduction to this album Human motivation during a global...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...of data by electronic means. Let us give you some examples. In a landline telephone system, messages are conveyed as signals on wires. The message is conveyed electronically. Manipulation of data takes place when you speak into the phone – your words are transformed into electronic signals. The data is then conveyed through the phone system, stored briefly for further processing on the way, and ......
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...system, informed by the ways of thinking and knowing (epistemologies) located at such sites, with a view to undermining the asymmetry of local- global power relationships, and effecting the decentring of Eurocentric/ Western-centric universals. However, to return to the original question, “what does it mean to decolonise computing?”, I think there is also a need to...
Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...thinking more expansively about sources, look in more detail at sources in todays’ digital environment. To conclude, I will share one of my favourite books with you, favourite in part due to its readability, combined with extensive use of referencing. Sources can be many and varied Typically for assignment writing you will expect and be expected to provide appropriate...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...thinking really are, and who want to understand the underpinnings of our ideas about them...Computers are becoming smarter and may soon become intelligent. This free course, Machines, minds and computers, looks at what intelligence is, how computers may become so, and whether they ever will really be intelligent. It is aimed at people interested in understanding what...
Influence diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Influence diagrams

...systems map that explores the influences between the components that you have included on the map. It therefore represents how the components both of the system and its environment interact, and shows the important relationships that exist among them. It presents an overview of areas of activity, or organisational and other groupings, and their main interrelationships. It...
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...think we should not be over simplistic with this because there are some grazing systems where you actually can demonstrate there is a lot of carbon that flows into the soil where it is stored, for some years at least. We have some possibilities to reduce emissions also from the livestock sector, but all-in-all we need to go towards sustainable pathways where we would have...