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An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...technology fundamental to our personal and professional life. This free introductory course, An introduction to software development, discusses the engineering nature of software development, its challenges and some fundamental practices which have developed to meet them. Software development is a fast-moving discipline and as a software development professional you must...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...education and training, and work and leisure activities. You’ve gained knowledge and skills from your experiences – probably more than you think – and will have developed characteristics and capabilities that help you to cope with difficult situations and to respond to different challenges. The activities that follow ask you to think about a series of questions to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...technologies there’ll be, but also just from our own science and the climate laws and the observations and so on. So they talk about all of that uncertainty and how you can’t be sure, which is fine – the devil’s in the details. RH: And it’s true, isn’t it, as well? TE: Of course there’s uncertainty, there’s always going to be uncertainty about future...
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The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...Education, the United States Supreme Court officially ruled that segregated educational facilities were unconstitutional and ‘inherently unequal’ (quoted in Reynolds, 2010, p. 410). A Black lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, who worked for the NAACP, helped bring this case to the Supreme Court. But while it paved the way for an end to educational segregation, this court...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...technology companies from both India and China have opened UK bases in the city that have attracted workers from overseas. The diversity of participants, and the variety of ways in they made the Democratic Set their ‘home’, inspired us to think about the meaning of home in a fast-paced, globalised world. What does it mean to have, to create, to be, or to feel at home?...
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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...technologies, the possibility of finding life remains. If found, life beyond Earth would be a very big claim with society-wide implications, so it is critical to be sure that the evidence is robust, reliable and irrefutable. That is, there must be confidence that the evidence found originates from the environment being explored and has not been taken there from Earth. We...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth distribution) Compensation paid to slave owners Slavery is endemic in economic and political structures Against: Source of...
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