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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...thinking about the Irish border since my early teens. Born in Dublin to Irish parents, my family moved to England for my Dad’s job in the early 1970s. Born in Ireland, raised in England, I have now lived in Belfast for 25 years, so issues of national identity, where you belong, and where people think you belong, were impressed upon me from quite an early age. The Irish...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...think about the reasons for this. In dialogue with the poet Below we've included an interview with Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill and Angus Calder. The conversation covers a wide range of topics concerning language, translation, gender and identity in Ní Dhomhnaill’s poetry which you might find interesting to link back to the discussions of Irish women’s poetry featured in our...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...thinking approach, accounting for work-from-home (WFH) remote energy consumption alongside associated reductions in office energy requirements. The rapidly growing B-Corp certification is stricter in this respect, requiring companies to declare their remote worker energy consumption. This can be rather complicated from both technical and moral perspectives. In a video...
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Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...thinking of the nucleus + cat system as a superposition of those extreme states is absurd. Surely it’s absurd to believe that a cat is well-described by a state vector ( vertical line alive mathematical right angle bracket or vertical line dead mathematical right angle bracket ), and surely the cat is in the definite state ‘alive’until it definitely dies (or better,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...think about your part in the many roles that teaching assistants can play. One interesting feature of the teaching assistant workforce is the extent to which it is overwhelmingly female. Why are women, especially many who are mothers, drawn to this work, and why are there so few men? This is one of the themes you will explore in this course. As with teachers and their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...think about the source contained within the message itself and consider whose voice is present in the promotional message? What are they telling us about the brand? And from what position of authority? Sometimes, through the use of a simple voice-over, the source remains an absent presence – heard but not seen. Although, even here, marketers might use a recognisable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...system of parks, public gardens, and playgrounds, unusual in their number and variety, had a sympathetic allure in the gray, cool light, even to the spectator passing in a hurried hansom. They have not the unity of the Boston or Chicago parkways, and I will own that I had not come to Manchester for them. What interested me more were the miles and miles of
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...think of this, as long ago as 1623, Wilhelm Schickard had built a simple calculator, but Babbage’s machine was far more elaborate and capable of performing complex calculations. Babbage was also perhaps the first person to realise that so long as a machine was correctly constructed it would produce tables to any level of accuracy without ever tiring or making an error....
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