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Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...interface. It hides the detailed workings of the model from the user. The interface sits between the user and the layer at which the model is implemented. The latter is responsible for making the model do what it is supposed to do. This is where the automation of the model takes place...Introduction to computational thinking: 2.3 Encapsulation in computing - Abstraction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...interfaces between cinema, culture and history...[Close up of a bucket of popcorn] Film, from its beginning, was considered a realist medium because its mechanical reproduction by a photochemical process appears to ‘catch reality on the wing’. Although it is also the ‘dream factory’, ‘the camera never lies’, so it is an eyewitness whose evidence holds up in...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...interfaces with other functional areas within the organisation and with its external environment...Understanding operations management: 1 Understanding operations management - Consider the ingredients of your breakfast this morning. Unless you live on a farm and produced them yourself, they passed through a number of different processing steps between the farmer and your...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...interfaces. Holley (ibid) links the concept of transdisciplinarity to Gibbons’ (1994) ideas of Mode 2 knowledge which ‘encourages cooperative interaction between scholars and practitioners’. (Holley, op cit) These can all be seen as versions of interdisciplinarity, but for simplicity we can think of interdisciplinary study being when students are encouraged to...
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Article 15 mins
Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...interface components (for example search boxes, check boxes), which do not provide enough colour contrast some online forms, which are not set up correctly to include helpful direction for screen reader users. We aim to provide accessible alternative content or activities where we can. However, some older activities developed before 2018, such as online experiments and...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...interface areas. From Sean Kelly’s statement to the Sentence Review Commission - part of a process to have his licence restored. [Kevin Winters handwritten note and portrait. See details below for text transcript.]Kevin Winters reflects on 2005. Text transcript I represented Mr Sean Kelly circa July 2005 when an issue arose in relation to the terms of his release from...
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Article 5 mins
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...interface areas. [Described image] Figure 9: ‘The Peacewall’, Cupar Street, Belfast. Like many places which have experienced political and communal conflict, Northern Ireland still has a number of these segregated communities today. Some remain separated by walls like the one above (Figure 9) which you also saw in the short film made with Matty and Dylan. This image...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...interface from a high refractive index material to a low refractive index material, if the angle between the light ray and the interface is small enough. Refractive index The core of an optical fibre has ‘different properties’ from the cladding. Specifically, the property that differs is the refractive index. The refractive index of a material, usually written as n,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs