If, like Duggie Fields, you are interested in making the leap from paint to pixels, here are some suggestions to help you.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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What can current theories about children’s learning and development contribute to the development of new teaching and learning methods in schools? And how are new digital technologies changing the ways children think and learn? This album introduces two elements of The Open University's presence in the virtual world Second Life™ and explores the way in which virtual worlds can offer new opportunities for teaching and learning. The album also explores some of the ways that the theories of Lev Vygotsky have influenced the use of dialogue and language in the classroom and the ways in which children and teachers interact with each other. The interviews and video tracks are introduced and contextualised by Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning.
Category: Education
While scooping up Ratatas on the way to Sainsbury's is fun, Rebecca Ferguson is more excited by the potential of applying the technologies of Pokemon Go to online learning.
Category: Education
Dr John Senior examines the factors that led to the rise of museums.
Category: History
Artist Duggie Fields has recently added a computer to the tools of his trade. Duggie has been an artist for over 30 years, building up a reputation as one of the world's leading post-pop artists. He has exhibited world-wide, and his London flat acts as a mini gallery of his work.
Category: Visual Art
Increasingly, SMEs are finding advantages in a multi-national approach.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
2009 is the 40th anniversary of the first computer network - the precursor of the internet - and the 20th anniversary of the brilliant idea that led to the creation of the world wide web. What exactly is the internet, and how does it differ from the world wide web? Who were its pioneers, and what technological surprises has it sprung? This album opens with a specially recorded interview with John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at The Open University and author of 'A brief history of the future - the origins of the internet'. He explores some of the key moments in the short but spectacular history of an extraordinary phenomenon, the people who made them happen, and some of the problems that have emerged. The album also features archive interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Donald Davies and other pioneers of the internet age, recorded in the late 1990s. The album is completed by a newly recorded interview with Rodney Harrison, lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University, in which he talks about his research into Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities. The interviews are presented by radio journalist Penny Boreham.
Category: Computing & ICT
Whether you find spiders fearful or fascinating, they are to be admired for their web-spinning and prey-catching techniques, and the remarkable methods they use to move from one place to another. In this album, researchers in Denmark and the United States use an 8-legged robot and a virtual spider, high-speed photography, a hot air balloon and a rowing boat to explore the biophysics of spiders. In the audio track, Dr David Robinson of The Open University explains how advances in technology allow advances in scientific knowledge and understanding. This material forms part of The Open University course S204 Biology: uniformity and diversity.
Category: Biology
A tongue-in-cheek look at some current developments in technology and lifestyle.
Category: Sociology
How has the digital world changed?
Category: Digital & Computing
John Perry Barlow's experiences suggest some in China are wary of the rapid change promised by the internet - but that doesn't mean it's a nation closed to innovation.
Category: Digital & Computing
Susan Greenfield considers the proposition that time spent online is re-wiring our minds.
Category: Digital & Computing
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt explains what he believes drives his company - but he might be being over-modest, suggests The Open University's Fiona Ellis-Chadwick.
Category: Digital & Computing
The Long Now's Stewart Brand and The Open University's Magnus Ramage explore how social networking is changing all communications.
Category: Digital & Computing
Evgeny Morozov of Foreign Policy and The Open University's Ray Corrigan praise the chances and weigh the challenges offered as nationality moves online.
Category: Digital & Computing
Businesses are using multiplayer online games to promote their products. Do these games have a useful potential for trialling new financial and social theories?
Category: Digital & Computing