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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...technologies does not always come at a price – the benefits may outweigh the costs. Think of Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’, when government spending was used to create jobs which brought the USA out of the Great Depression. New technologies are now developing rapidly. The growth of a new technology starts slowly. It’s likely to be expensive at first, and perhaps...
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...Technology and education are developing and increasingly go hand in hand. As it is likely you will use a computer or a tablet to study, it is important to ensure that you are confident in your digital skills to help you be an effective learner. To be an apprentice distance learner, the following digital skills are likely to help you be successful in your studies: Knowing...
The Four Generations of Computers
Science, Maths & Technology

The Four Generations of Computers

...technology changed throughout these years. Visiting locations such as The National Museum of Computing in Milton Keynes and The Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, we see an array of fascinating machines and learn about them along the way. This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life... Colossus: The World's First Electronic Computer...
Make it Digital
Digital & Computing

Make it Digital

...technology. BBC Make it Digital aims to get the nation truly excited about digital creativity. It will inspire audiences young and old through world-class TV, radio and online content. Make it Digital will also amplify the great work already taking place across the UK through initiatives with partners. The Open University has co-produced three programmes in the season and...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the 8th and 11th century (the Viking Age), Europe saw significant technological advances, not all of them Scandinavian – the Anglo-Saxons, Frisians and Franks...
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...technologies’, Policy Futures in Education, 19(4), pp. 478–492. (Read from p. 483 – p. 489 starting at: Research methods.) As you read make notes about: The competing values which are at play. The necessity to compromise to achieve goals. The ways in which voices are silenced. The fears you might have in working in a way that subverted what was being expected of you...
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...technological solutions that will meet our ambitions on climate change? FB: The energy is at the heart of the climate change problem, because more than two thirds of the emissions come from the energy sector, by far the most important sector. Therefore we have to find solutions within the energy sector if we are serious to address the climate change. And when I look at...
University of the Future
OpenLearn Ireland

University of the Future

...technologies to enable students to study from their computers, mobile phones, mp3 players and tablet devices – without necessarily having to open a book... University of the Future ‘University of The Future’ shows how the OU has harnessed new and emerging technologies to enable students to study from their computers, mobile phones, mp3 players and tablet devices –...