Bank Users, Not Money - Marissa Mayer, Stanford Entrepreneurship
Google has proven that if you build it, they will come, and their mass of tools to keep users logged in has been the crux of their success. Vice President of Search Products & User Experience Marissa Mayer elaborates on this strategy, pointing out that money - and advertisers - will always follow consumers. Focus on building sticky media that draws in a wide audience, and the method to its monetization will follow.
Talk: Arianna Huffington on "The New Media Landscape"
The co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post speaks about "The New Media Landscape" and how the economic crisis is a threat to democracy
Episode 44: Ethics in Psychiatry and Medical Training Prof Sidney Bloch speaks to Up Close host Jacky Angus about the development and role of ethics in psychiatric practice as well as in the education of doctors. Sidney Bloch -
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The ultimate guide to Google Earth for Teachers and Students When Google Earth launched in 2004 it was one of the web’s original ‘Wow!’ tools that people really stood up and took notice of. Today it is in an i
Episode 108: Intellectualizing infidelity: A feminist remix Political scientist Dr Lauren Rosewarne combines the academic and personal in a critical, feminist examination of being the ìother womanî in a affair with a married man. With host Jennifer Cook. Dr Lauren Rosewarne Part 8: Example of a teacher using a systematic approach to preparing media-based lessons. Part 10: Concluding discussion on preparing for and teaching using media in the classroom. Acknowledgements Learning outcomes Film Music and Digital Media Learning outcomes KidsHealth References Acknowledgements Amanda Burrows is a graduate of Laban and gained an MA in Education from The Open University. She has taught dance in secondary schools, FE colleges, universities and in community settings. Amanda is currently Head of Curriculum for Visual, Performing Arts and Media at Grantham College, and has produced materials for the Open Univerity's Teachandlearn.net, repurposed here for openlearn. Critical Issues and Grand Challenges References References Acknowledgements The following material is Proprietary and is used under licence: Naughton, J. (1998) ‘Arts: Internet: It's free and it works. No wonder Bill Gates hates it’, Observer, 8 November 1998, © Guardian News and Media Ltd 2005; Wilkins, E. (1994) ‘Rescued from £1 a day for girl's upkeep’, The Times, 31 January 1994. Copyright © Times Newspapers Ltd 1994; ‘Agency demands 1p Acknowledgements The material below is contained in chapter 3 of Economics and Economic Change Microeconomics (2006) (eds) Graham Dawson, Maureen Mackintosh and Paul Anand, which is published by Pearson Education Limited in association with The Open University. Copyright © The Open University. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary, used under licence and not subject to Creative Commons Licence (see terms and co Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: appreciate the importance of technological change, costs of production and consumer preferences to the changing organisation of production; understand the relation between the quantity demanded of a good and its price as represented by the demand curve; understand economic models of the relation between firms’ costs and output; analyse the role of technology and costs in influencing in
Part 8: Example of a teacher using a systematic approach to preparing media-based lessons.
Part 10: Concluding discussion on preparing for and teaching using media in the classroom.
This unit explores the role of digital media as a teaching tool, focussing on video in particular. we will examine the process of how you can start to use digital video in the classroom, and how to manage your project from objective setting, through story boards and filming, to assesing the success of your project.
This unit explores the role of digital media as a teaching tool, focussing on video in particular. we will examine the process of how you can start to use digital video in the classroom, and how to manage your project from objective setting, through story boards and filming, to assesing the success of your project.
In a panel that at times resembles a late-night ramble and conversation, three film music professionals discuss changes in their industry, with some no-holds-barred dishing and kvetching.
Martin Marks sets the scene historically, starting with the revolutionary introduction of sound to film. He plays a clip from the origi
This unit is concerned with two main topics. In Section 1, you will learn about another kind of graphical display, the boxplot. A boxplot is a fairly simple graphic, which displays certain summary statistics of a set of data. Boxplots are particularly useful for assessing quickly the location, dispersion, and symmetry or skewness of a set of data, and for making comparisons of these features in two or more data sets. Boxplots can also be useful for drawing attention to possible outliers in a dat
The KidsHealth website, created by the Nemours Center for Children's Health Media, is aimed at parents, children and teenagers. Nemours is one of the largest US non-profit organisations devoted to children's health. This site gives access to three separate sections which are aimed at parents, kids, and teens. The sections cover a wealth of information about health (both physical and emotional), behaviour and development from before birth through to the teen years. Complex medical information is
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These panelists use the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT.
The system failure that undid the small but influential financial services industry was a few decades in the making, says John Reed. In the ‘80s, a sea change swept ov
The incidence of obesity is on the increase in affluent societies, and the phenomenon commands increasing attention from health professionals, legislators and the media. This unit looks at the science behind obesity, examining the dietary, physiological and genetic aspects of the topic.
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