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Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...creative business. A software engineer who writes a computer program uses creative design expertise (and other skills) in order to create an algorithm that can be performed by a machine. Thus I am suggesting all these models might be a rich repository of design relationships. Familiarity with them may enable designers to disassemble them into pieces, which work 'locally',...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...creative routes to new funding, such as philanthropic funders who are driven by a particular ‘mission’. If we can creatively find intersections with that mission, then philanthropic funding can help fund interdisciplinary research. This is where the engaged research becomes really important. In lean periods we have to find new ways of keeping collaborators engaged;...
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...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: Alamy Figures Figure 1: Lenormand, T. et al. (1999) ‘Tracking...
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...write your answers in the text boxes provided against each of the activities and refer back to them or edit your answers at any time. You also have the option of downloading your answers by clicking on the link (‘Download your answers for the documents on this course’) that appears on the left-hand side of each course page. The course has six quizzes to test your...
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...write down ‘Creative’ under a heading called ‘most important’. Discussion Different kinds of work will reflect different values and it’s useful to know what matters to you at this stage, as your needs and wants change as you go through your working life. By focusing on what you’ve identified as ‘most important’ and thinking of work that fulfils this will...
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...writing (exploiting technology) and the text could supplement their memory. Either way, a messenger can bring quite a lot of information. If the spread of news is relying on word of mouth, then we can imagine news spreading in the way of the 'office grapevine' today, where one person tells two or three others who each tell another two or three people and so on. The total...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...writes about how Bowie influenced his tastes...[David Bowie Street art in Brixton, South London] I first listened to David Bowie aged fourteen in 1981. He was my first foray outside of the puritanical fastnesses of Punk Rock. Punk joyously declared the music of its immediate forebears dated, dead, overblown: 1977 was a year zero past which you didn’t dare explore for...
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...writing, fluency over accuracy, and comprehension over production. As teachers, we were impressed by how capable our language students were to take on the role of peer teacher as well as active learner. Implementing ‘Flipped’ principles into our distance language learning module has confirmed to us that distance education already presumes an active form of learning....