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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...
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Article 5 mins
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...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring
Society, Politics & Law

‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring

...technological challenges are faced by communities seeking to understand environmental change at different geographical scales?...Engaging with environmental change requires that societies have the capability to trace out complex issues as these emerge and develop. Environmental change, however, is seldom directly perceptible to human senses. This is one reason why we are...
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Article 10 mins
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...technological changes which characterised the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Cities in the western world were expanding. This urbanisation called for a new approach to building- new technologies would have to be embraced, offering cheaper, more efficient means of satisfying a larger population and a growing number of industrial clients. In the...
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Article 5 mins
What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...educational purpose to the little pictures used to communicate?...Despite their popularity, emoji are still often viewed as a frivolous form of communication. For some, they seem to be a huge step back for civilization.[1] Is it really the case that five and a half thousand years after the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics we’re once again resorting to communication via...
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Article 15 mins