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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...Open Badges and offer the same benefits in recording accreditation. However, Smart Badges are immutable and easily verifiable as they are stored on the Blockchain. The other novelty of Smart Badges lies in their dynamic features. For example, apart from just recording a learning achievement, a Smart Badge can also offer job or course recommendations as described in the...
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Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future... Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities A short introduction to this album. Demonstrating sustainability in Scotland A community designed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ecologically sound. Designing an eco-village The architect of Beddington zero fossil energy development...
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Philosophy and the Human Situation
History & The Arts

Philosophy and the Human Situation

...Open University course A211 Philosophy and the human situation... Philosophy and the human situation An introduction to this album Liberty and Offence Philosophy professor Jonathan Wolff discusses 19th century classical liberal thinker John Stuart Mill’s famous ‘harm’ principle Rousseau and Positive Freedom Philosophy lecturer Derek Matravers explains 18th century...
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Earth and Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth and Life

...Open University Course S269 Earth and Life... Earth and Life A short introduction to this album. Daisyworld: James Lovelock and Gaia An introduction to Gaia by James Lovelock. Daisyworld: Gaia and Daisyworld James lovelock discusses the original Gaia theory and how it developed and led to the Daisy world model. Daisyworld: Self regulation James Lovelock continues to look...
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Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...Open University course K202 Care, welfare and community... Community Social Care A short introduction to this album. Segregated schooling for sight impaired young people Peter White, BBC disability affairs correspondent, revisits the school for visually impaired young people he attended when he was growing up. Mainstream schooling for sight impaired young people Peter...
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Science Communication and Public Engagement
Science, Maths & Technology

Science Communication and Public Engagement

...Open University course SH804 Communicating science in the information age... Communicating science A short introduction to this album. Science and society Dr. Richard Holliman interviews Prof. Alan Irwin on the changing relationship between science and society. Communicating science Dr Richard Holliman interviews Dr Victoria Pearson on how she communicates science as a...
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Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment

...Open University course SDK125 Introducing health sciences: a case study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment A short introduction to this album Visual Impairment: Derek 's Story Derek Child describes how he felt when he lost his sight. Training techniques Derek talks about long cane training and his decision to do guide dog training. Dealing with...
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Women Writers: Voices in Transition
History & The Arts

Women Writers: Voices in Transition

...Open University course A300 20th century literature: texts and debates... Katherine Mansfield Delia da Sousa re-examines the life and works of short story writer Katherine Mansfield, author of short stories including ‘The Garden Party’ and ‘The Voyage’. Taken from a four part series examining the lives, work and influence of women writers: Virginia Woolf, Jean...
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