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Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...project on anti-nuclear activism...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Luc-André Brunet]As an undergraduate student, I did an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree in Canada, which included a fair bit of history. I spent one year abroad in Paris, where most of my modules...
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
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...
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...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Introduction and guidance: Introduction - This Principles and practices of peace education course is a collaboration between the Open University and Quakers in Britain. The course introduces the core principles of peace education to those working with children and young people. As well as practical ideas for everyday classroom practice, it links to materials for further...
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...project design and management. Diagramming serves three general purposes. To note down your thoughts on a particular problem, situation or issue (sometimes called your system of interest) in a way that organises those thoughts so you can see links and relationships between the different factors you’ve identified. To communicate your ideas to others, possibly across...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...introduction of new management methods and techniques and new working methods Creation or use of new technologies, introduced in an organisation to render services to users and citizens Product or service innovations Creation of new public services or products Governance innovations Development of new forms and processes to address specific societal problems Conceptual...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs