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Introduction to number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to number theory

...techniques and an introduction to mathematical typesetting, therefore a fluency with the rules of arithmetic, highest common factors (HCF), basic algebra including subscript notation and inequalities is essential for this extract. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...techniques to explore how individual storytelling and voiced ‘declarations’ not only empower the narrator as they are articulated, but can create shared empathy and deeper understanding for the listener when heard in the right context, often providing insight into wider stories and current debates. The installation aimed to stimulate three types of experience designed...
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Article 15 mins
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...techniques of engaging with the image that anticipated cinematographic techniques such as tracking, where the camera moves through space, and panning, where the camera swivels on a stationary point. [An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London] An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: showing the battle of Trafalgar. Coloured engraving...
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Article 5 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...techniques. It's interesting to see what kind of behaviour you can evolve with a simple reactive mechanism, but then the hardware isn't evolving - it's abstraction of the real thing." On the future: "I think that we'll certainly end up with robots doing simple tasks for us where you don't need to worry about whether they're intelligent or not, for example, vacuuming the...
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Article 15 mins
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...technique developed about 15–20 years ago in which scans are taken at intervals during surgery to help check the progress of the procedure. This helps reduce the risk of incomplete or damaging surgery, says Conor Mallucci, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK. “There should be a zero per cent return-to-theatre...
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Article 5 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...technique which duplicates the process that nature uses to produce twins or triplets. One or more cells are removed from a fertilised embryo and encouraged to develop into one or more duplicate embryos. Twins or triplets are thus formed, with identical DNA. This has been done for many years on various species of animals, but only very limited experimentation has been done...
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Article 30 mins
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...techniques managers find useful in dealing with them. We will also be examining some of the essential people skills needed by managers, most notably communication, interpersonal skills and team-working and encouraging you to become more aware of your own approaches to these aspects of your work life. The majority of the ideas and techniques in this course form the basis...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...techniques appropriately (Entwistle, 1994) Activity 2 Can you suggest why thinking skills are considered to be so important in education today? Discussion Education can be seen as the main way of developing individuals and society. There are a range of possible reasons you might have suggested for thinking being an important area to develop. Perhaps your reasons were...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs