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Sustainable Design – Innovative design techniques
Money & Business

Sustainable Design – Innovative design techniques

...creativity and innovation. Designers have a tremendous opportunity to influence the sustainability of what they create, with 80% of a product’s environmental impacts determined at the design stage. Whether it’s material choices, manufacturing processes or product durability, these decisions present exciting opportunities to develop products incorporating not only...
From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging
Society, Politics & Law

From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging

...creative to promote diversity and bridge the gaps. After 20 years, I can say it has been a remarkable journey. I chose to make a home in Britain. Although I am proud of my Pakistani and South Asian heritage, I do belong here. Sometimes, we have to create or find a place where we belong. I think we shouldn’t be living somewhere we don’t belong. At the time of writing,...
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...creativity, whereby local ritual technologies for communicating with the dead were blended together with Western communication technologies. Once posed in this way, the question about action became one of agency and power rather than one of rationality. This was of a piece with my main point which was to argue that scientific-anthropological knowledge about Cargo cults...
Design and Designing
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...crating and outlining to draw a children's toy. Sketching to communicate How sketches can be used to communicate instructions or information. Folding bike re-invented The creative process that led to the design of the Strida bike. Refining the design The importance of teamwork when refining a design. The value of sketching Sketching as a trigger for creative design....
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...write in a structured manner to answer a question I might get stressed at times when learning. However, I know I can manage my time and expectations effectively I can process my learning to address the assessment tasks asked of me I respond to feedback positively, using it to develop myself as a learner I can interpret information from a variety of media (books,...
Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...writing mathematical arguments are improving. You should now be able to: use, and understand the theoretical underpinnings of, mathematical induction understand and be able to apply the Generalised Principle of Mathematical Induction and the Second Principle of Mathematical Induction recognise the importance of the Division Algorithm, and be able to apply it in a variety...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...writing mathematical arguments are improving. You should now be able to: apply the Internal Direct Product Theorem in simple cases decide whether a given group is cyclic, and given a finite cyclic group, find a generator for a subgroup of a given order express a given finite cyclic group as the direct product of cyclic groups of prime power order and, given two direct...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...creativity? Online music fandoms can bring out your creative side as you develop new content and engage in a wide range of activities that are shared or even co-created within the community, such as writing poetry and fan fiction, making artwork, editing videos and performing music. This can give members an opportunity to develop new skills or rediscover old interests. 5....