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Digital thinking tools for better decision making
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Acknowledgements

Intro

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Course image: © Laurence Dutton/Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/

Course trailer video: TomSparke.com (animations) for The Open University © The Open University

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Dangoor Education: courtesy Dangoor Education http://dangooreducation.com/ (part of The Exilarch’s Foundation)

Institute of Coding: courtesy of Institute of Coding https://instituteofcoding.open.ac.uk/

Digital thinking tools for better decision making course badge: © The Open University

Session 1

Images

Figure 1: © Stefan Krause, Germany; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Figure 3: © BabelStone https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en

Figure 4: © geogphotos /Alamy Stock Photo https://www.alamy.com

Figure 5: © Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 3.0/

Figure 7: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Gregor_Reisch_-_Margarita_Philosophica_-_Arithmetica.jpg

Figure 8: © Herbert Klaeren; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0

Figure 10: courtesy CERN https://home.cern/

Figure 11: courtesy NASA https://www.nasa.gov

Figures 12(a) and 12(b): © Paul Savory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln WolframAlpha http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 3.0

Video

Video 1: David McCandless TED Talks; https://www.ted.com; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

Video 2: TomSparke.com (animations) for The Open University ©The Open University

Session 2

Images

Figure 1: Museum Meermanno; http://bestiary.ca/ institutes/ institutedetail5070.htm

Figure 2: screenshot of google main search page: courtesy of Google https://www.google.co.uk/

Figure 3: cover of The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. Photograph: Penguin Classics Penguin/Random House

Figure 4: photograph ©Silverije (Wikipedia) https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/

Figure 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica#/ media/ File:EncycBrit1913.jpg

Figure 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ The_Great_British_Bake_Off

Figure 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/ w/ index.php?title=The_Great_British_Bake_Off&action=history

Figure 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/ w/ index.php?date-range-to=2018-11-04&tagfilter=&title=Talk%3AThe_Great_British_Bake_Off&action=history

Figure 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/ w/ index.php?date-range-to=2018-11-04&tagfilter=&title=Talk%3AThe_Great_British_Bake_Off&action=history

Figure 10: from: WolframAlpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Figure 11: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Eohippus#/ media/ File:Hyracotherium_Eohippus_hharder.jpg OOC

Video

Video 1: Eli Pariser TED Talks; https://www.ted.com; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/

Session 3

Images

Figure 1: © James Cridland (Flickr) https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/

Figure 2: The original AMNH mount of Brontosaurus (1905) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/ science-nature/ why-brontosaurus-still-matters-63478606/

Figure 3: © Clem Onojeghuo https://www.pexels.com/ photo/ blur-candies-chocolates-close-up-175762/

Figure 4: forecast page from Almanis: https://www.almanis.com/ courtesy: dysruptlabs. http://www.dysruptlabs.com/

Figure 5 outcome generated by ©The Open University using Python https://www.python.org/

Session 4

Images

Figure 1: © SerKucher/ iStockphoto.com

Figure 6 map: © The Open University

Video

Video end of session 4: TomSparke.com (animations) for The Open University ©The Open University

Session 5

Image

Figure 10: Scottish Autism; www.scottishautism.org

Session 6

Images

Figure 3: MIT Museum

Figure 5: Free Mind; Christian Foltin; https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Free_Mind.png https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en

Figure 16: socrates photograph by Sting https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Socrates#/ media/ File:Socrates_Louvre.jpg

Video

Activity 5 video: Using FreeMind for argument mapping produced by The Open University using FreeMind free software http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ wiki/ index.php/ Licensing

Session 7

Images

Figure 2: © Joi Ito in Flickr: https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/

Figure 6: Twitter ™ courtesy of Twitter https://twitter.com/

Figure 9: The Tor Project, Inc., https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0/ us/ deed.en

Figure 10: The Guardian Securedrop page © 2019 Guardian News & Media Limited https://www.theguardian.com/ securedrop

Figure 11: NSA Tor Stinks…’: a slide prepared for a top-secret NSA briefing that was leaked to the press in 2013 (Ball et al., 2013)

Figure 16: courtesy of Kialo https://www.kialo.com

Figure 17: courtesy of Kialo https://www.kialo.com

Video

Video 1: by kind permission of NESTA https://www.nesta.org.uk/

Session 8

Images

Figure 1: Photographer: Mark Duffy for UK Parliament

Figure 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Euclid%27s_Elements#/ media/ File:P._Oxy._I_29.jpg

Figure 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ De_Arte_Combinatoria#/ media/ File:Fotothek_df_tg_0005486_Mathematik_%5E_Kombinatorik.jpg

Figure 4: Vrancx, Sebastian (1573-1647); Bridgeman Art Library

Figure 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine#/media/File:The_Engine_(Gulliver).png

Figure 6: https://www.deutsches-museum.de

Figure 7: Sydney Padua https://www.redbubble.com/ people/ sydneypadua/ works/ 15059232-babbages-analytical-engine

Figure 8: https://study.com

Figure 9: automath archive https://www.win.tue.nl/ automath/

Figure 12: https://www.nvidia.com

Figure 13: By Molly MEP, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=77508825

Figure 14: snapshot from study image: https://arxiv.org/ pdf/ 1808.03305.pdf

Figure 15: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, gift of Peter Stein

Figure 16: Business organizations' reasons for adopting artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide, as of 2017 courtesy Statista https://www.statista.com/

This free course was written by Paul Piwek and Richard Walker. It was first published in February 2020.

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