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Design and Designing
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...crating and outlining to draw a children's toy. Sketching to communicate How sketches can be used to communicate instructions or information. Folding bike re-invented The creative process that led to the design of the Strida bike. Refining the design The importance of teamwork when refining a design. The value of sketching Sketching as a trigger for creative design....
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...research is increasingly showing the importance of these microbiomes for the correct functioning of the human body and for maintaining health. In fact, disruption to these microbiomes can lead to a number of long-term health conditions, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, some cancers and some mental health disorders. The gut microbiome is the largest and...
Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Nature & Environment

Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...

...research at The Open University...If you ask someone what the weather will be like tomorrow, they will first look out of the window. That is because tomorrow’s weather is highly dependent on today’s weather, despite all the complexities of the moving air masses in the atmosphere. The air moves faster than ice sheets, therefore, it is easy to imagine that the current...
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster
Science, Maths & Technology

Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster

...researching the Tay Bridge disaster, and here he shares his theory that the train de-railed through a combination of heavy wind and a weak girder. Tom Martin's Tay Bridge analysis Mathematician Tom Martin uses the modern method of 'structural computer analysis' to understand the failure of the bridge, and looks at how this failure started at the base columns due to heavy...
Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

...successfully administer support to the community where the state is inadequate. Sexual Citizens and Orientalism Dr Leticia Sabsay’s research focuses on ‘sexual citizenship’ and how the consequences of its emergence and expansion have forced Western societies to confront their own assumptions about freedom and equality within political, social and contemporary life....
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...research on threshold concepts and the causes of student misconceptions has focused on the sciences and mathematics. For example, research has highlighted that ‘intuitive beliefs’ lie at the bottom of many misconceptions. Intuitive beliefs are assumptions that students make about the world around them. Sometimes these beliefs are mistaken, yet they are so engrained...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre 2004-12 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. He has operated at the interface between research, policy-making and business throughout his career. He is President of the UK Energy Institute. He is also a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the 6th...