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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...creative possibilities. When thinking with prototypes, one needs to resist the urge to complete them and instead deploy these objects to generate new ideas through a continuous process of rearranging their components and features. We developed a prototype called Empathy Tree, which invites people to plant and care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over...
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...writing at speed regularly. 3 Discussion Alongside the comments are some suggested strategies for tackling these difficulties. Each strategy is covered by one of the sections of this course. The third column contains the number of the section relevant to that strategy. Your own comments on your concerns may not be listed here, but you may find them addressed through the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
EDI in research: a collection
Education & Development

EDI in research: a collection

...writing these pages, we held to a belief that, ‘The academy won’t change overnight. Nor does change occur through purely demographic shifts. It will only change when standard structures of knowledge and power are confronted’ (Reyes, 2022, p. 1). Each page aims at stimulating thought and discussion rather than provide a definitive guide. There are few concerns that...
Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!
Education & Development

Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!

...reads what you write online? Aunt Mabel, pals from the pub, your best friend's ex wife - who are you talking to when you post online? Transcript Filter bubbles and fake news Have you ever noticed you only see opinions on social media that match your own? Maybe you are trapped in a filter bubble! And what is all this fake news we hear about in the... news...? Transcript...
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Creative Commons Wiki page on different types of OER. Write a blog post of less than 500 words on either the benefits and drawbacks of big and little OER approaches (from Martin Weller’s conference submission) or the benefits and drawbacks of OER Learning Objects and OER Courseware (from the Creative Commons Wiki). Remember to tag your post with #h817open and, if you...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...writing – a key graduate skill. This course will also help you avoid being accused of plagiarism, but that in itself is not the complete objective; we want you to develop good academic writing skills. We will explain what we mean by academic practice, and then unpick some of the ideas in more detail, such as writing in your own words, the difference between...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...creativity and the relationships between them, and considers the conceptions and varieties of imaginative experience. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss basic philosophical questions concerning the...