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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...and an Observer columnist since 1987. I am now the paper’s Technology columnist writing a weekly column and occasional OpEds and editorials.” John is author of three books: A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet 1999); From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet (2012); and 100 Not Out: A Lockdown Diary (2020)”...
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Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers

...people use one hand to signify numbers. Yī, èr, sān, sì, wŭ, liù, qī, bā, jiŭ, shí. If you want to learn how to write the numbers from one to ten on a mobile device, you can free download the Open University’s “Chinese Characters First Steps” app, following the link on the website. Dur: 3’30” Inspired? Learn beginner's Chinese with The Open University...
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Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...writing and speaking skills. The content focuses on food, restaurants and eating habits. The course also gives examples of how grammar, vocabulary, cultural aspects and study skills are taught by the OU in the Beginners' German module...This free course, Beginners' German: food and drink, provides materials that support the development of listening, reading, writing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...write some notes on how the video uses these concepts to analyse the airport. (You may wish to watch the video again.) Security Discussion Surveillance is essential for modern airports. Airports constantly rehearse for emergencies. Passengers are all treated as a potential threat. The passport is central to controlling security via use of ‘gateways’ and ‘choke...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...Creative Archive’ Well again that was an innovation project, so for the Creative Archive, as I say, was a trial to see what the appetite for people’s interaction with the archive was. If you give them a body of archive content, how creative do they want to be with it? And it was a very early project, it didn’t have the participation levels that you do now, but it...
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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...writings and assesses their historical significance. In particular, it examines the contribution that Evangelicalism, the religious tradition to which Wilberforce belonged, made in the transitions between the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Throughout it relates Wilberforce's career and writings to wider social and cultural developments in Britain, with special regard for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...writing down music that is different from those of Western music. The example in Figure 4 is a score for the qin or Chinese lute. Figure 5 P. Jurgenson, n.d. (1892), Plate 17668 In Western culture we may be used to seeing scores like the final example in Figure 5, but scores are not always like this...Week 1: Understanding the principles of musical scores: 1.1.1 How do...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: In line with the British Museum’s wishes and aims to encourage the dissemination...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs