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Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...social issues...Census stories: Bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes: 1 What can the census tell us about religion? - Before you start thinking through the course's key questions in more depth, watch this short film explaining how the census data can help us understand religious identity in Milton Keynes: NARRATOR Are we getting less religious? Every ten years in...
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...social circles, means that the ‘female part’ of being a female athlete or exerciser is often overlooked. As a result sport and fitness environments are often not optimised for women and limit their chances of positive outcomes...Session 1: Mind the gap: gender differences in sport science research and its impact on female athletes: 4 Why is the female
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...interactions and processes. This study note will give advice on how to view a video effectively. Study note: Viewing and listening for a purpose To view video effectively, make sure you can watch without distractions, as when learning from text. Before you view, think about why you are watching a video. Is it to help you gain deeper understanding of a topic or to provide...
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...social principles in behalf of the Man rather than the Master, and we have not yet surmounted all the difficulties or dangers of the experiment. It is droll how, in a tolerably well-meaning world like this, any sort of contempt becomes inclusive, and a whole population suffers for the vice, or it may be the virtue, of a very small majority, or a very powerful minority....
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...social media platforms Even if you’re not on them, they track you. So what you’re talking about is disrupting this whole model… And turning it upside down… It goes beyond the uberisation of the economy. What this is about is actually a totally different way of thinking about data. If you think of how we’re so used to handling data, let’s say personal data...
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...social reformer who wrote about his first balloon experience for the Illustrated London News in 1852, drew heavily on this new vocabulary: And here began that peculiar panoramic effect which is the distinguishing feature of a view from a balloon, and which arises from the utter absence of all sense of motion in the machine itself. The earth appeared literally to consist...
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...Social and Cultural Issues’, the Agreement committed its co-guarantors to taking a series of actions and interventions aimed at recognising ‘the importance of respect, understanding and tolerance’, citing Irish as ‘part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland.’ For the very first time, the British Government was party to an agreement which included...
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...social, economic, and so on. This is the approach taken in the OpenLearn course Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes, created with Religious Studies staff at the OU, which is also free on OpenLearn. We can start with particular concepts we tend to associate with religion, and then examine these from a variety of perspectives. This is the approach...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr