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Make your learning count towards an Open University qualification
Education & Development

Make your learning count towards an Open University qualification

...education with The Open University? ...[Make your learning count] OpenLearn courses have been proven to increase confidence and develop the skills needed to enter higher education and succeed with learning. A 30-credit OU level 1 course, Making your learning count will build on the learning that you may have already gained via OpenLearn, or other open educational...
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Hack For Change
Society, Politics & Law

Hack For Change

...technology, and design processes to improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Anyone can participate; you don’t have to be an expert in technology, you just have to care about your neighborhood and community.” It was initiated by designers and developers, government and non-governmental organisation/charity and encouraged people to participate...
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How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...technology precludes any of us from travelling beyond the Solar System in a human lifetime. However, with our present technology, or at least the technology that might come in the next century or so, we can imagine an amazing prospect. [Imagined vision of a spaceship passing above a distant planet] Consider a ship that leaves the Earth and takes 90 years to traverse the...
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How can you use sand to store energy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you use sand to store energy?

...technology, developed at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, uses gravity to drain sand from a higher basin into a lower one, heating up the sand grains with solar power during the transition. In the lower basin, the energy can be stored and withdrawn at low cost to provide extra energy if needed, for example during peak hours and at night-time. "Two pilot...
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The benefits of social media in academia
Education & Development

The benefits of social media in academia

...technology continues to evolve. In this article we will explore the three core benefits: connection, communication and collaboration. Social media is widely used by individuals and organisations across various sectors. In academia, social media usage is becoming increasingly common due to its potential to bring academic audiences together, be they educators, researchers,...
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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...technologies and infrastructure to create environmental and economic efficiency while improving the overall quality of life” – have created important increases in the understanding of infrastructure usage, improved efficiency, and better service provision to citizens. That said, the emergence of smart cities – and the installation and utilization of vast networks of...
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Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Science, Maths & Technology

Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time

...technologies are more energy intensive to produce due to the materials that compose them. New ideas needed So what is the alternative to the current system? If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them. Our cars currently spend 92% of their time parked – and, when driving, most of their weight is used only to...
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Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct methodological approach to citizenship, and that no single methodological approach can say all that there is to be said about citizenship. What is more, as the day school made clear, methodological approaches to the study of...
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