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20 years in Law: how technology changed legal practice
Society, Politics & Law

20 years in Law: how technology changed legal practice

...become the main form of communication![1] But 2006 marked a significant turning point in legal practice. On 9 August 2006, Google CEO: Eric Schmidt is said to have first used the term ‘cloud computing’ in its modern sense at a conference. Schmidt said: “I don’t think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It starts with the premise that...
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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...becoming utilities”, says Edward George, Ecobank’s UK Country Head and Head of Group Research. “With utilities, you start providing services over a certain network and you’re kind of stuck there; they have no growth potential, and people don’t want to invest in them.” He spoke with LSE Business Review managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and...
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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...students considering the residential school for the SXR260 The geological history of the British Isles course, based in the north of England. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Science...Geological processes in the British Isles: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: summarise and identify descriptions of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this?Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK?We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/ –...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the health sector but in other sectors too. It is both ‘multi-professional’ – involving professionals such as police, teachers, housing officers as well as health workers – and ‘inter-sectoral’ – involving different government departments, local government, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...OU) and undertaken in partnership with Public Health England and The Folklore Society. Our thanks to all the volunteer researchers and participants in the Reproductive Bodylore project....Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction: Introduction - Do you want to find out what people think about an issue, or what their experiences are? Do you need to carry out...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...student at Harvard, Michael Marshak, now assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues report in Science journal that, instead of costly and difficult-to-handle metals, they have tested naturally-occurring, carbon-based molecules called quinines for the negative electrolyte component of the battery. They had started their...
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