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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...skill to modify the code is a weaker selling point. Free software tools have won on their broad merits many times, and not only on low-level system and network fronts. Wikis and blogging software (which are interaction and communication tools) that have been invented by the free software community have maintained a lead over proprietary competitors. Networking and...
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Article 10 mins
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...study my cancer and help other kids that get it in the future.” Violet died a year later at her grandparents’ home, beside her family and pets: a puppy, two Labradors and a cat. A couple of weeks after her passing, Olson honoured her by naming a new project ‘Project Violet’. He hoped it would revolutionise cancer surgery with a drug from an unusual source....
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Article 5 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...Studies, because the programme that I chose allowed me essentially to write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I wanted to do, which was to look actually at television and see what television had to say about the natural world....
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Video 30 mins
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the types of wave understand the properties of waves...What are waves?: 1 How do you make a wave? - Waves on the surface of the ocean are caused by winds that displace the surface. The same applies in the atmosphere too. The displacement by a force such as the wind pushes the boundary, or interface, between two...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer trawsnewid digidol
Digital & Computing

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer trawsnewid digidol

...skills are a step towards learning lots of other new things. They can improve your confidence to use technology for work, learning and daily life. Many jobs today require digital skills. You need them even for jobs that do not ask for high levels of qualifications or experience. For example, if you work in a warehouse or a shop you may need to keep digital records of...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain why fire is an important component of healthy ecosystems explain what is meant by a ‘fire regime’ and how changes in fire regimes can lead to changes in ecosystems describe some adaptive features of plants that have evolved in response to fire describe how some animals avoid fires and/or benefit from the aftermath...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understand the processes that led to the formation of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland understand what is meant by ‘nation’ understand what is meant by ‘state’ understand how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...study the Open University’s 30-credit course L108 Beginners’ Chinese....Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course: Introduction - This free course, Beginners' Chinese: a taster course, is introductory material for absolute beginners in Chinese based on The Open University’s 30-credit module Beginners’ Chinese (L108). This course concentrates on Mandarin Chinese as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs