free Open University Courses https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue
#free #OpenUniversity #Learning

also signed up for https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/what-can-philosophy-tell-us-about-race/

#free #OpenUniversity #learning

There are developer #jobs in the team I work in. It's a very good place to work (work-life balance etc) and as well as #OpenUniversity code, you sometimes get to contribute to the #OpenSource #Moodle product, which is used by like a zillion students worldwide.

Hybrid in #MiltonKeynes, UK, but if you prefer home working then you only have to come to the office about once a month.

https://jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Engineer-%28Development%29/695-en_GB

On the social value of technology (1978):

Lessons from *The Lucas Plan* (24m:31s)
#OpenUniversity

Reclaiming the means of production for #SocialJustice:

- can workers decide what to make & how?
- Can educators occupy AI for #peace?

#OccupAI
#ResistAI
#AntiFascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-3lZYT3izI

From The #OpenUniversity Palestine Solidarity Group (oupalestinesolidarity.org; www.youtube.com/@OUPalestine...):

*Confronting the World’s 21st Century Colonial Genocide*

Weds 30 April, 4 pm (UK time)

#FreePalestine

For more information and to register: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4f441568-5e95-44dc-9090-1d31167aabd5@0e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685

10th webinar organised by The #OpenUniversity Palestine Solidarity Group (https://oupalestinesolidarity.org/; https://www.youtube.com/@OUPalestineSolidarity):

***Confronting the World’s 21st Century Colonial Genocide***

Online Wednesday 30 April, 4 pm (UK time)

#FreePalestine

For more information and to register: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4f441568-5e95-44dc-9090-1d31167aabd5@0e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685

Imagine parting the veils of clouds that obscure Venus, and seeing through the crustal basalts to understand the mantle beneath. This is the journey Julia Semprich (@planetju) took us on as the Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer.

#MinSocAm #OpenUniversity #McGillUniversity #Venus #Mantle #PlanetaryScience

Which other and how many universities around the world have adopted the Jerusalem Definition of Antisematism (https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/), which the #OpenUniversity adheres to alongside the IHRA?

#HigherEducation
#PeacefulResistance
#FreePalestine
#BDS

https://about.open.ac.uk/policies-and-reports/policies-and-statements/open-university-adoption-ihra-and-jda-definitions

Managed to figure out how to properly use #uv to manage #Python correctly such that it runs in a code editor.

I'm starting an IT & Computing course with #OpenUniversity that uses Python for problem solving, starting with IDLE but eventually migrating to a code editor - I needed to get it working properly.

Been through computational #mathematics this morning - both converting equations and expressions to code, but also writing them with #LaTex with nice formatting.

Apart from the finance side of things, that me now fully registered onto my new #Psychology module, with The #OpenUniversity! 🙂

Module = Encountering Psychology in Context (D120).

@psychology

#academia #academics #studyodon #education

I'm looking forward to start my #Psychology studies, as #OpenUniversity module registration opens on Wednesday. 🙂

I'll be signing up to Encountering Psychology in Context (D120). I can't wait to begin.

@psychology

#academics #academia #academic #D120

The web pages for my next #OpenUniversity course are now live. I've really missed it and I'm excited to work through it and learn more things.

Oh gods, I just discovered The Open University does PhDs in Astrobiology!

🪐 #Astrobiology #TheOU #OpenUniversity #PhD #Science

Many thanks to @fosstodon for letting me join the server. 🙂

I'm still setting up my profile but here's a brief #introduction.

I've been using #Linux for over seven years now and have come to love both the #OpenSource and #UNIX design philosophies. I use OS apps where I can, though I'm pragmatic about it (there are a few closed apps I use).

Outside of this I'm a student with the #OpenUniversity, a writer, researcher and avid reader!

I also live in the #WestCountry! 🙂

"I is do statistics"

#CatsOfMastodon #statistics #OpenUniversity #OU

It's another #OpenUniversity deadline day for wifey so I'm restless waiting and just ambling in #LOTRO until she sends stuff to me to proof-read.

Proud of our #OpenUniversity student group, Friends of Palestine, for hosting:

Global Solidarity - A New Year of Resistance.

Broad range of speakers on what it means to resist individually and collectively.

Sunday 9 February, 7:30 pm, GMT

#FreePalestine

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-new-year-of-resistance-global-solidarity-for-palestine-tickets-1216827486769

If you are a fan of classic COSMOS with Carl Sagan, you will probably love the UK’s Open University S354 “UNDERSTANDING SPACE & TIME”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111090
#OpenUniversity #astronomy #physics #vintage

If you are a fan of classic COSMOS with Carl Sagan, you will probably love the UK’s Open University S354 “UNDERSTANDING SPACE & TIME”

When I was a young nerdling I would get up early Saturday to switch on the TV, and of the three, later four TV channels that we had the one I would go to for early entertainment at 6:30 a.m. was BBC 2 Open University.

And this is what I would watch, religiously:

https://archive.org/details/OUBBCS354Ep1Of17BeforeEinsteinUnderstandingSpaceTime/OU+BBC+S354+Ep+01+of+17+Before+Einstein+(Understanding+Space+%26+Time).mp4

#astronomy #openUniversity #physics #vintage

Great to see Naomi Alderman bigging up the Open University in the Observer's On My Radar column this morning...

As the holder of both an OU first degree & a later MA (done like Alderman while I was working) I completely endorse this message.... a great British institution that has done so much to democratise university education.

#universities #OpenUniversity #education