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Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...creative destruction presented as entertainment, played out on the media, on websites and in countless numbers of YouTube film clips. We can all join together in celebrating the removal of a blighted and failed urban past and, of course, in the bright new urban future to come. Bulldozing high-rise blocks, demolishing low-rise housing and clearing hard-to-let estates is...
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Article 15 mins
Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...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 free course: Course image: © antishock/123rf Every effort has been made to contact...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Second-order differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Second-order differential equations

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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...Write down two or three examples under each of the two headings below: Systems in your home Systems outside the home Discussion Your examples of systems might be very different from mine, but here's my list: In my home there are systems such as the stereo system, my (not very efficient) personal filing system, the central heating system. Systems outside the home include:...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...Creative Commons Licence. This OpenLearn course was updated with the help of Gini Harrison in July 2019. Course image: Thomas Galvez in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence . Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...Creative Commons’ if you’re not familiar with the concept, and read/skim some of your hits. Read one of Martin Weller’s blog entries from early in 2013 – Openness has won – now what? – where he argues that: ‘it’s hard not to conclude that openness has prevailed… Whether it’s open access publishing, open data, MOOCs, OERs, open source or open...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I wanted to do, which was to look actually at television and see what television had to say about the natural world. Documentaries I’m most proud of Well there’d be a number of...
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Video 30 mins
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...writing. And he’s there with his favourite walking stick and his glasses. Jeremy Bentham is really unusual in that he gave explicit consent in his will, in fact he demanded in his will, that he should be put on display like this. But usually when bodies and body parts appear in museums, it’s not even with implicit consent. So, for instance, we look at the case of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs