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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...works with your own creativity rather than replacing it – this research, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye...
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Video 4 mins
Open Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Open Mathematics

...work of railway employees as they monitor and develop the service to suit passenger demand and ensure safety systems are in place. The material forms part of the course MU120 Open Mathematics... Open Mathematics A short introduction to this album. Running Trains Safely Steam trains in the valley of the River Severn - ensuring the train service meets customer demand and...
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Audio 25 mins
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...work through the course, the key terms discussed are highlighted in bold. Definitions for these terms are provided in the glossary at the end of the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...What is poetry?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the common techniques underlying...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...works, where its limitations lie, and how it can (and cannot) be used when dealing with everyday legal issues...About: This guidance note, produced by The Open University in collaboration with the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP, gives a high-level overview of how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) works, its risks, and how it may appropriately be used in relation to...
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Article 20 mins
Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...work at two universities...Higher Education enjoyed a huge expansion during the 1960s with new universities and polytechnics being opened and many older universities expanding their numbers. One man, Asa Briggs, played significant roles at the first of the new universities of the decade, the University of Sussex located just outside Brighton, which opened in 1961, and the...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...work with Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education...‘Astrobiology’ isn’t a subject you can study at school. Can you tell me a little bit about your journey to astrobiology and how you arrived where you are now? By accident! Since childhood, I’ve been interested in in the big questions about where we come from, the evolution of life on Earth, the origins of...
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Article 10 mins
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...work on pronunciation...This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing listening skills and work on pronunciation....Intermediate Italian: describing people: Introduction - In this free course, Intermediate Italian: describing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...social units form groups, they get together and work together for periods of days. They only do this with members of their own clan. The different clans have distinctive ways of moving around the islands. They have different feeding success. In normal years, when the waters are quite cool off the Galápagos, then the regular clan does better. But when they warm up, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs