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Timeline: The History of Technology and Silicon Valley
Digital & Computing

Timeline: The History of Technology and Silicon Valley

...interactive timeline...How do I use this timeline? The easiest way to journey through the history of technology and Silicon Valley is to click the arrow on the right hand side (or swipe right on a tablet), which will take you through all the entries. You can also investigate various thems such as: 'AI', 'Business' or 'Hardware' by selecting the 'Open filters' button on...
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Activity 20 mins
Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing

...interact with society, and how we think. The arts can also be a useful way of exploring the ideas, emotions and identities associated with health and wellbeing, whether in the present day or as part of historical research. While formal arts therapies have been in use for some decades, more recently health professionals and others have begun to recognise the broader role...
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Article 5 mins
Good Academic Practice Collection
Education & Development

Good Academic Practice Collection

...interactive course is essential if you want to understand what is meant by good academic practice. The other resources in this collection will help to further your understanding. Check out our series of short animations If you are a student studying with The Open University you might want to watch these helpful animations. They explain what plagiarism is, why it’s...
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Article 5 mins
Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence
Society, Politics & Law

Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence

...interaction and interdependencies. Dr. Jef Huysmans and Dr. Simon Bromley delve into the political differences between the realist and liberal models used to control large non-governmental organisations... Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence A short introduction to the album. The World Trade Organisation Jef Huysmans and Simon Bromley discuss the WTO (World Trade...
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Audio 32 mins
Management: Perspectives and Practice
Money & Business

Management: Perspectives and Practice

...interact with the rest of the organisation, with examples of common problems, challenges and difficulties that are faced. This material forms part of The Open University course B716 MBA stage 1: Management: Perspectives and Practice... HR Perspective A HR representative explains how HR is a vital part of organisational strategy. Marketing Perspective A Marketing...
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Audio 30 mins
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...social justice issues such as police shootings, domestic violence, and sexual harassment have been recognised and given a public platform; but so have their deniers. Therefore, whether Twitter holds the potential for social justice is an open and complex question: to explore it we apply two different conceptualisations of misrecognition to the #metoo campaign. The #metoo...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...interaction between biological, psychological and social factors should be considered (Walker and Heaney, 2013). This approach differs from the more traditional biomedical model which only recognises the influences of biological factors (Brewer and Redmond, 2017; Green, Jackson and Klaber Moffett, 2008). It has been suggested that the adoption of a biopsychosocial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...interact with the world based on the way we know insects do. The most complex way, and the one that is picking up all modern technologies, such as machine learning, is based on something called a ‘neural net’, which is a model of how the brain works, in a very simplistic way. It’s based on training huge amounts of data into a software system – the neural net –...
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Article 5 mins