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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...become ubiquitous and interacting with computers no longer means using keyboard and mouse. Embedded in the fabric of our cities, workplaces, homes, vehicles, clothes and even bodies, ‘smart’ systems now allow us to relate to the world around us, one another and even ourselves in unprecedented ways. Being directly or indirectly involved in every aspect of human life,...
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Video 15 mins
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...OU. At the start of the course, you'll learn the basics of information security and how to take some easy steps to secure your digital life. We'll then begin to look under the hood, exploring some of the technologies underpinning the internet and information security. You'll see how data moves between computers over the internet, how it can be attacked, and how it can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...become similarly dominant. The different approaches for managing operations that are currently popular include: Flexible specialisation (Piore and Sabel, 1984) in which firms (especially small firms) focus on separate parts of the value-adding process and collaborate within networks to produce whole products. Such an approach requires highly developed networks, effective...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...become aware of the scale of its losses; casualty lists from the battle were still being published in Ulster’s newspapers in early August, and ‘a hush of mourning fell over the whole province… In house after house, blinds were drawn.’ The annual 12th July demonstrations were cancelled. Instead, five minutes silence was observed at noon, when traffic halted and...
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Article 10 mins
Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...becomes your brand.” The effect described in this quote is a tried-and-tested influencing method psychologists call the mere-exposure effect. Simply by exposing people to things, causes them subconsciously to develop a preference for it. There is no reason that this would not work for messages such as: “We want our country back” “No border, No control” “Who...
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Article 10 mins
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...become less shy, it does suggest that it is possible to change a child’s basic emotional outlook. Interestingly, children themselves are quite optimistic about changing the negative: while 5 to 6 year-olds feel it is quite hard to change negative physical traits, they feel it is quite easy to change negative psychological traits (e.g., being very shy/fearful). This...
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Article 10 mins
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...become a sort of national icon in a strange way. This made me question the whole issue of what is true in my research in a different way, I just wondered if that had been the same for you. EMMA DARWIN: Oh I think absolutely, I mean an awful lot of what people call the facts are actually… well for one thing they’re the record. SALLY O’REILLY: Yes. EMMA DARWIN:...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...become obscured, and the potential for richly reciprocal reader relationships between children and children and between children and teachers reduces. A balance needs to be wrought between teaching the skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure.Yet it is possible to build human connections between readers and texts and to make the life-to-text...
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Article 10 mins