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Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...managed a number of UK and Europe wide projects in schools and was closely involved in the development and delivery of the NOF training programme for school librarians. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Injection moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Injection moulding

...projected area of the component that can be produced. Locking can be either mechanical or hydraulic, although mechanical locking is considered to give faster cycle times. A typical injection moulding cycle is shown below. It has been claimed that by reducing the floor cycle time from 25 to 24 s, 2 weeks of production time per year can be saved. [Diagram of an injection...
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Article 5 mins
Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day

...project, an Open University and Vagina Museum collaboration funded by the Open Societal Challenges initiative. The article also relates to Open University law modules including W340: Law, Society, and Culture, and W350: Exploring Legal Boundaries. What is Menstrual Health Day? In 2014, WASH United responded to ongoing stigma relating to menstruation by initiating...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...ever-increasing importance of digital literacy and artificial intelligence, they also equip language learners with an additional employability skill. References, sources and links von Lindeiner-Stráský, K. (2022). unpublished project report ‘Web-based Machine Translation in Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment’, Praxis-Project, The Open University 2020-2022....
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Article 5 mins
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Project at the University of Brighton – on the life of the Highways of Empire artist Empire and its legacies The Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies: Working Papers on Africa and Asia historical to contemporary Working Papers on Commodities and Empire Books and articles Anthony, Scott. Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain:...
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Article 5 mins
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...project I had a big problem. Because I could have gone and found the mother (whose story inspired the drawings) but then I thought: ‘No, that mother is not there for me to be a subject of my art work’. But then I thought I want to go to the refugee camp in Sweden to talk with people to undertake some background research. But again I thought: ‘No, these people are...
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Article 5 mins
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...projects. In 1986, she left HOS to found Hamilton Technologies, to accelerate the evolution software technology and to direct her advanced systems to complex projects for commercial and defence purposes. Margaret Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports and has been involved in 60 projects and in 6 major programmes (Katz 2010). She has been the...
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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...manage the increasing amount of books, resulting in ingenious solutions, such as Agostino Ramelli’s ‘book wheel’, a rotating bookshelf and desk. [This is an illustration of a person using a book wheel.] Figure 1 Agostino Ramelli’s book wheel. The arrival of a new medium, however, did not mean that previous ones were abandoned. Humanities research methods are still...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs