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9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...course of the day they handled in excess of 400 million calls as people in America, and all over the world tried to contact friends and family in New York. This collection gives a snapshot of how the communications company dealt with the unprecedented technological challenges by using techniques such as call gapping to help free up other services... The AT and T Network...
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Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...course, the languages involved play an essential role in this situation: how will refugees learn the new language and how long will it take them? How much, and in which contexts, will they use both their native language and the new language they will have to learn in their asylum country? What will be the impact of this situation on the linguistic habits of the second and...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change project Thomas Stocker interview Key RH : = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer TS: = Professor Thomas Stocker Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Scientist, Participant RH: This is for the BBC and Open University, all our interviews start with the same question; when did you first get interested in energy? TS: I got...
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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well series of Public Talks, I am exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain a well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in the older age. As we know we start ageing the moment we are born, it demonstrates more...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...opening up and offered a new possibility for taking up those world-disclosing issues. You could create content which opened up ideas in a way that were being closed down on conventional mainstream broadcast. So I could see that panning out and that was an exciting possibility that I wanted to pursue. How has online TV evolved? I think the changes that have happened in...
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Autumn on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

Autumn on OpenLearn

...course...1: Walk among the autumnal landscape The woods provide the perfect backdrop for an autumn walk, with an array of rich colours and woodland creatures. Why not take a walk there and check out the nature happening around you? Here are some free resources to inspire you to do so. 2: Make the most of the night sky October provides the Orionids and the Draconids –...
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Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...courses and other resources to help you thrive in an ever-changing digital hybrid world...This toolkit offers holistic, human-centred approaches for organisations making the shift to sustainable hybrid working and digital futures. You’ll learn about a range of topics in the collection, including: Digital skills and leadership Digital transformation and building a...
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...Openness (with high scorers interested in art and abstract ideas, low scorers practical and down to earth), Conscientiousness (with high scorers methodical and dutiful, low scorers more distractible), and Agreeableness (with high scorers cooperative and trusting, and low scorers more aggressive and hostile). Together these make up the ‘big five’, or OCEAN (Openness,...
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