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Energy policy and climate change
Science, Maths & Technology

Energy policy and climate change

...low carbon city, approaching everything from building design to transport from a low carbon perspective European energy update Godfrey Boyle updates the preceding films and reveals how energy policies have changed over the last three years Studying energy for a sustainable future Godfrey Boyle talks about T206, the course from which the material on this album was drawn...
Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...in classrooms. A SPRinG teacher's perspective Secondary science teacher Jane Brine talks about her involvement with the SPRinG project and the benefits is has brought for her and her pupils. Studying children's development and learning Course chair Dr Dorothy Faulkner gives an overview of Open University course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning....
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Teachers sharing resources online: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the benefits of resource sharing to creators (teachers), their institutions, their pupils and to those who use the resources evaluate a range of resource sharing sites for suitability to...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...study in Management...How teams work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues and processes that relate to team formation and development in a virtual context identify barriers to effective team work in a virtual environment and propose solutions review and comment on team activities in a virtual environment and develop...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...study this course...Information security underpins the commercial viability and profitability of enterprises of all sizes and the effectiveness of public sector organisations. This free course begins by explaining why information security and its management are important for any modern organisation and to every individual. You need to be familiar with an organisation,...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...skills in critical visual analysis based on the study of selected images of Renaissance art understand the geographical, political and commercial forces that set Venice at the centre of a broad network of trade and power relations and the complex ways these were reflected in Venetian art and architecture...Art in Renaissance Venice: Renaissance Art Reconsidered - This...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...study also gives an indication of the ways in which Twitter was used to both report hate speech incidents and to express solidarity with migrants. Expressions and stories of migrant solidarity, primarily through the widespread online campaign of the #1DayWithoutUs activist group, sought to counterbalance xenophobic sentiments, often by offering a multiplicity of migrant...
Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...skills and were predominantly women, were suddenly finding themselves facing the fact that their bosses did not care about them. If they weren’t going to make a profit, then they would be discarded and cast aside. And it was that sense of injustice, and a belief that workers should have dignity that brought us together as a support group. “We met weekly and our role...