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Electric Dreams: Technology makeover
History & The Arts

Electric Dreams: Technology makeover

Let our interactive take you on an electric trip down memory lane...Passionate about technology? The Open University has Engineering and Technology courses you might be interested in - try Engineering The Future, which takes you from design concepts through to manufacture, or the online course Design Thinking: Creativity for the 21st Century.
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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes. This is computing that works with your own creativity rather than replacing it – this research, a collaboration between...
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Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...technology affects your life. In this free course, Sound for music technology: An introduction, you will learn some of the basics of music technology, starting with what sound is, how it is created and how it travels...Whether you're a professional musician, play music with your friends on the weekends or just like to listen to CDs, music technology affects your life. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...education: the environment, demographic changes and the impact of technological advances. The key question is this: is education fit for this future?...The next generation will need many different skills to those we can easily imagine today. Young people will need to be able to learn quickly and efficiently, to think critically and dismiss fake facts, and to offer...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...Education (HE)...At COP26 the parties agreed to work towards further reductions to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) to prevent catastrophic climate change. Transitional pathways need to be set, not just at national levels, but across sectors to achieve net-zero GHGE targets agreed under the COP 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming increases to within 1.5 degrees...
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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...technology in education to equip children effectively for their current and future lives. On the other hand there are anxieties about the implications of extensive screen-time and about what or whom children may encounter in digital environments that are hard to police and difficult to confine. (Burnett, 2016, p. 3)...Session 5: Connected children: 3 Schools in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...education, provides an introduction to comparative education studies and will compare and contrast primary schooling around the world. You will look into classrooms and hear from teachers, teacher educators and policy makers from a range of education settings and countries. You will also learn about United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the agenda for free,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...educate prisoners?’ is a question that is always implicit in UK penal policy but, rarely ever explicitly addressed. This article addresses this question head-on...The most recent government review of education in prisons which was conducted by Dame Sally Coates in 2016 failed to address this question directly. Admittedly, the review focused on prisoners’ access to...
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