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What is economics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is economics?

...resources – and most of the resources we need to use in our lives are limited in some way or another. From gender discrimination in the workplace to the influence of trade unions on employment and wages, the price of new cars on the forecourt to new ways of tackling pollution – economics touches on almost every aspect of everyday life. On the larger scale, when the...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...resource allocation problem...Exploring communications technology: 1.9 Summary - Modulation is an essential part of digital communications. There are various schemes available and there are design compromises to be made between data rate, bandwidth, the likelihood of errors, complexity and so on. Modulation is used both in wireless and wired communication. In digital...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Climate Change Collection
Nature & Environment

Climate Change Collection

...humanities, to social science, education and STEM, it provides an introduction to the issues surrounding climate change. OpenLearn contains many more articles on environmental issues. You can navigate the site by subject area or by searching for key words in the search bar. Notes to teachers All OpenLearn courses can be downloaded as documents (PDF, Word, ePub, Kindle) by...
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Exploring the science of climate
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the science of climate

...human activities could influence global climate first emerged more than a hundred years ago, when the Swedish scientist Arrhenius warned that burning coal could lead to global warming. The tracks on this album take a historical look at the systematic study of weather and climate, from the amateur scientists of the Mannheim group in the late 18th century to the...
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Audio 25 mins
What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...resources – articles, videos, audios and courses – that have been curated by a team of applied work psychologists at The School of Psychology & Counselling. The hub draws on existing content already on OpenLearn, but also includes newly commissioned content created by experts specifically for the hub. The hub explores several themes that emerged from research carried...
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Article 10 mins
Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...resources that are now out there have been really liberating for me, in terms of how I view myself and the parts of me that may both be enjoyed or alarm others at times, such as maverick humour, or startlingly insightful connections and overviews. I also see how these traits enabled me to be a successful social entrepreneur alongside my other work, and to take on lots of...
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Article 5 mins
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...human-like translations, it doesn’t understand emotions, metaphors, or context, often resulting in errors and biases. Machine translation might seem easy and straightforward, but it has limitations. Understanding its history helps us make more informed choices. Machines calculate and match patterns, but do not understand or think. This is something that you must do....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...resources. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, 2013) provided a wider definition of cloud computing: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs