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Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?
History & The Arts

Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?

...project. We direct you to other resources so that you may extend your enquiry by comparing accounts, cross-referencing evidence, or verifying sources...In this third intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection, we suggest you take a look at two different annotations for the first few chapters in ‘The Histories’, Book 1. One is RapGenius, an online...
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...project focused on print in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and my book Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714 was based on that work. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I was particularly drawn to printed material that conveyed political ideas – newspapers, pamphlets, electoral literature – and then...
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...introduction to Bayesian statistics. Section 1 discusses several ways of estimating probabilities. Section 2 reviews ideas of conditional probabilities and introduces Bayes’ theorem and its use in updating beliefs about a proposition, when data are observed, or information becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...project at The Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to...
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...Introduction to Business Management. If you do embark on a course of study, you will be supported throughout by a tutor. You'll also have access to the module website, which includes modules materials, audio and video content, an assessment guide, and online tutorials and forums. B206 Understanding customers starts once a year in October, so if you are interested, act...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...management persists. Existing UK landfill regulations prioritise public health and safety alongside environmental compliance. It includes acquiring planning permission and an environmental permit linked to a proposed landfill restoration plan. At the landfill restoration phase, operators place an even layer of material on top of the landfill to create a soil profile, but...
Soaring Achievements
Science, Maths & Technology

Soaring Achievements

...introduction to this album. Gliding - an Introduction A brief history of the sport of gliding- flying an airplane without an engine. What factors affect a glider's performance. Mathematical Modelling The role of mathematical modelling in gliding, focusing on The British Overseas Nationals, a modern racing competition held in Le Blanc, France. A Lesson in Flying: Gliding...
The geological record of environmental change
Science, Maths & Technology

The geological record of environmental change

...introduction to the geology of Northern Scotland. Glaciation: The Garvellachs A field trip to the Garvellachs. Glaciation: Examining sandstones Two geologists examine sandstones that they have come across whilst exploring the rocks in Scotland. Glaciation: Diamictites An examination of diamantine and sandstone strata of the Garvellachs and how they make up the rock...