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Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...work] Alena & Lisa: On your website you describe yourself as an illustrator and visual facilitator. How do you see these roles in relation to your artistic practice- in what sense do they inform your art, in what sense are they separate? What is the advantage of being a visual facilitator and an artist? Laura: I find that different areas of my creative practice tend to...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...work round the clock...Power cuts force us to rely on more primitive methods of illumination, such as candles, gas or oil-lamps. Candles and flame lamps were in fact the main source of illumination for millennia, up until the late Victorian era. It was many years before electricity was harnessed to provide a new form of lighting both homes and businesses. Why did it take...
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Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...working in the education sector (from early years to further education) across the UK and the goal was to share key examples of external engagement and knowledge exchange work taking place at The Open University. The conference featured keynote addresses from senior leadership staff from the three nation offices and our School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport as...
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...Work on the barracks network commenced in 1698–9, with a new bureaucracy of barrack-masters, a barrack board and barrack trustees put in place. Thereafter, the Irish barracks network expanded significantly and came to set the example for similar networks in Britain and further afield. Army barracks in Ireland: the OU research contribution The ‘Our shared built...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...Work Foundation, 2007). Value, in the context of culture and creativity can be understood on a variety of levels – economic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, artistic and political. Although not mutually exclusive, these levels are often in tension with each other. By taking the focus away from individual creativity and moving to a discussion of collective or social...
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Dictation and voice control
Digital & Computing

Dictation and voice control

...work well together. You can use whichever method suits the task you're doing. Dictation – you talk, it types In its simplest form, dictation software (speech-to-text) allows you to speak and as a result it will type anywhere you wish to input text on your device. Dictation enables you to work for longer periods independently as it reduces the need to interact with the...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...work on. The Rubber Band Technique. This method can feel a bit self-conscious at first but is one of the quickest ways to change thinking. Wear a rubber band around your wrist: tight enough to stay on and make a soft snap when pulled, but loose enough to be comfortable and not break. When you notice a negative thought, give the rubber band a ping. This works in the same...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...work helped make the Apollo 11 Moon landing possible and laid the foundations of modern software engineering...[Margaret Hamilton images - space pioneer] Image 1: Photo from NASA, 1989. Margaret Heafield Hamilton (17 August 1936-30 September 2026) was born in Paoli, Indiana (Welch & Lamphier, 2019). After high school she studied mathematics at the University of Michigan...
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