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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...Hestia Project The Hestia project brings this enquiry into the 21st century medium of digital technologies. Browse the project team’s objectives and watch a short video clip from the academic lead, Dr. Elton Barker, before embarking on your own exploration and enquiry via our OpenLearn Collection, the Hestia map and selected links to external sources on the Internet....
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Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...project. How effective are eco-villages? The impacts that eco-villages and eco-communities can have on society and environmental awareness. Bedzed: a compromise Highlights the technologies in place at Bedzed and the shortcomings of the development. Recycling action groups in school How a school has encouraged students to take action against the waste that is produced in...
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Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...Project in London. Taking place just a few days before the referendum, and incorporating a breath-taking exhibition on everyday life in Calais’ ‘Jungle’ camp, the workshop opened up a space for collective reflections on the uses and meanings of creative approaches in migration research. I turned to creative methods in my current research project Immigrant Mothers as...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...project, based at The Open University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys in contact with welfare services. Underlying this...
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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...projected increase in the number and intensity of storms and other extreme weather events attributed to human-induced climate change is likely to intensify the processes of coastal change. Beaches and soft cliff faces are easily eroded by storm waves and surging tides; farmland and precious habitats, homes and property are lost to the sea. Sound is one of the most...
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Earth In Vision: A Collection
Nature & Environment

Earth In Vision: A Collection

The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Video 3 hrs
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...Project Joe Smith Interview My name is Joe Smith and I’m Professor of Environment and Society at The Open University. Introducing the Earth in Vision project We’ve gathered together a body of more than 20 interviews from the leading figures across 60 years of natural history and environmental programme making. You could call it a natural history of natural history,...
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Video 12 mins
Business operations
Science, Maths & Technology

Business operations

...management in four service industries. Each has unique problems associated with their sector but they all have operational processes to ensure smooth delivery of their product. Material is taken from The Open University Course T883 Business operations: delivering value... Business operations A short introduction to this album. BMI Baby: Outsourcing and cost management How...
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