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Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...data rates can be transmitted over long distances through optical fibres. You will learn how these fibres are linked, examine the technology used and assess the future direction of this continually developing area of communication...Optical-fibre communications became commercially viable in the 1970s and innovation continues today. This free course, Digital
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...data is collected and analysed. Radio 4's ‘The Material World’ broadcast three programmes from Open University Residential Schools, including SXR103 Practising Science. If you'd like to listen to this, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20060810.shtml. In addition, you can visit our Geology Toolkit for an interactive overview of the landscape...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...analysis allowing you to apply marketing theory to your own experience of having customers. Activity 2 Who are your customers? Timing: Allow 20 minutes for this activity Identify some important customers of your own. Think of your life at work, if you are in employment at the moment. Unless you work in retail, sales or customer service, you might never meet the final...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...data on income is more readily available than on wealth. Public bodies collect information on earnings for purposes such as tax. The nature of wealth means that it is more difficult to measure: a large part of wealth consists of the assets a household owns. The changing value of an asset is difficult to evaluate; asset prices might be rising but unless the asset is sold...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...analysis of how grief was discussed early on in the pandemic (March-April 2020) has shown that the media focused on two main impacts of the pandemic on grief: changing socially expected practices around death (e.g. visiting dying relatives and funeral practices) and the sense that deaths from COVID-19 were bad and represent a tragic loss of life. This was particularly...
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Article 20 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...data to show our changing world, Hans Rosling: How to Compare Countries Using Statistics. 9: Plastic bags are more environmentally friendly than cotton ones [Photograph, colour. Two plastic bags next to each other, each with a printed illustration of various types of fruit.] In October 2015 the law changed and large shops in England are required to charge 5p for all...
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Article 5 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...data or instructions. The instructions formed the very first computer programming language and contained concepts such as loops (which repeat operations) and conditional statements (such as IF this is TRUE then do this…), which are familiar to all modern computer programmers. There is no doubt; the Analytical Engine was one of the greatest ideas of the 19th Century. It...
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Article 15 mins
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...analysis, then what does the government base its decisions and negotiating position on?” In this series of articles I discuss some of the psychological aspects of Brexit that should give pause for thought. Ingroups and Outgroups Theresa May has selected three extreme pro-leave ministers and positioned them in important roles relative to the Brexit negotiations, creating...
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Article 10 mins