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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...write to us at: scotland-socsci@open.ac.uk We are particularly keen to hear from women workers, and from male trade unionists, who have been involved in struggles around issues such as pay and fairness at work, defending jobs as well as campaigns to defend or improve workplace conditions. We are also interested in disputes and strikes more generally from across all...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...write down how the following items of hardware relate to the functional blocks in Figure 5 (in the previous section). For simplicity, assume that items that provide input functionality relate to input devices, rather than input subsystems, and similarly items that provide output functionality relate to output devices rather than output subsystems. keyboard display 500 GB...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...Write 365 000 000 in scientific notation. 365 000 000 is written in scientific notation as 3.65 × 108. Write 0.0465 in scientific notation. 0.0465 in scientific notation is written as 4.65 ×10−2. How confident did you feel completing those questions? If you were able to answer the questions correctly then move straight to the next section. If you found some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...write their own Gaelic vernacular. English and Gaelic have thus shared a similar alphabet for a very long time but, of course, the Latin letters had to be adapted to portray sounds which were not necessarily of identical quality in each language. Anglophone readers soon learn that the English ‘rules’ which relate particular letters and letter combinations to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...write a heartfelt birthday card, Then, an envelope appears. but the right words escape you. Then, an AI companion offers creative suggestions, and suddenly, the perfect message flows onto the card. This is the power of generative AI. It can transform our approach to creativity and productivity. Starting at its history, generative AI has its roots in early AI research and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...writing about freedom will reveal the wide variety of approaches to political life which have been defended in the name of freedom. The arguments we'll be examining are arguments for political or social freedom: the freedom of the individual in relation to other people and to the state. The aim is to explain and unravel some arguments for this kind of freedom. In the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...write and count. There are also distinctive cultural additions to curriculum: children in a rural school in Uruguay, for example, may learn how to milk a cow, primary school children in Vietnam perhaps learn etiquette, and children in Russia traditionally learn ballroom dancing. Perhaps when you were a child in primary school you learned something that was distinctive to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...Write your answers in the box below. [Described image] Figure 1 Food likes and dislikes Vocabulaire surtout in particular crudités (f.pl.) raw vegetables with French dressing (typically grated carrots, beetroot, tomatoes, cucumber) aussi as well difficile fussy Feedback You should have identified: Ahmed: n’aime pas Chrystelle: n’aime pas du tout Benoît: n’aime pas...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs