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Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...working on one short mythical narrative, the death of Icarus. One aim of this course is to introduce you to the Roman poet Ovid, a crucially important figure in the history of classical mythology. Very few Graeco-Roman mythic narratives escaped Ovid’s attention, even if some crop up in unexpected places and only feature by brief allusion. Sampling Ovid in this OpenLearn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...work on the realised value of the company, called book value; that is the total value of its tangible assets: its property, computers, manufacturing plant etc. In contrast, shareholders value the things in a company that can make money, called it’s market value. So on top of the tangible assets, their interest includes the information that a company holds. For...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...works of art and architecture. This was a time when objects, commodities, ideas, designs, and technologies circulated over long distances, crossed boundaries and travelled between cultures, with significant consequences for the visual arts. Which brings us to the discussion (which I'll be moderating live between 10-11pm on Thursday 29 March). Join in the discussion by...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'
Education & Development

Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'

...work their way through the activities in each stage, usually with some face-to-face support from an adult, and learn how to create, design and carry out their own social research into a ­­topic that interests them. Each stage begins and ends with a short quiz so young researchers can keep track of what they have learned. There are a variety of different activities which...
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Article 10 mins
Hyperforge process
Science, Maths & Technology

Hyperforge process

...work steel forging dies are coated with graphite before each forging and pre-heated to 250˚C using cartridge heaters. Die life in excess of 300,000 forgings. Medium to high production rates of 180–250 components h-1. Typical products include spider cranks for bicycles and small connecting rods for internal combustion (IC) engines. Materials: Low cost ingot feedstock is...
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Article 5 mins
World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...work, The Book of the City of Ladies, de Pizan tackled the subject of the cause of women. She celebrated women’s accomplishments and pointed to their equal abilities to men’s. She thus revised history by giving women a place in it and showed the elite women of her time how they could successfully navigate their way in a man's world. Dig deeper into literature and...
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Article 5 mins
The Speed of Extinct Organisms
Nature & Environment

The Speed of Extinct Organisms

...speed in extinct organisms has recently been applied to T. rex. This involves calculating the strength and size of muscles in the legs relative to the size of the animal. For instance, this showed that T. rex probably could not run because the muscles needed would be too bulky to fit into the legs! Next: Working out ancient ecology Like science? Go further with the OU...
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Article 5 mins
Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...work well? What enables interdisciplinary learning? [Word cloud from the presentation.] Word cloud from the presentation. In exploring each question, we discussed the imperative of shifts in how knowledge is created, who and how it is accessed and how it is shared, where the role of distinct disciplinary knowledge that is fixed, is challenged by the information...
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Video 25 mins