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To Accompany the BBC Make It Digital Season LEARNING with the OPEN UNIVERSITY To accompany the BBC Make it Digital season LEARNING WITH THE OPEN UNIVERSITY The Open University (OU) has the UK’s largest academic If you want to take your interest in community with over 200,000 students, and with around 190 qualifications available in a range of fascinating and mathematics and computing further you may challenging subjects, you’re sure to be inspired. We call our be interested in the following qualifications: flexible study method ‘Supported Open Learning’ – it’s different to other learning methods because it combines one-to-one BSc (Hons) Mathematics (Q31) support with flexibility, allowing you to fit study around your life. With us, you don’t have to put your life on hold to get the Mathematics is indispensable to modern life. It enables us to qualification you need. Around 70 per cent of our students fit predict the growth of markets, model airflow in a jet engine, study around their job and busy, changing lives. calculate accurate drug doses and create 3D computer graphics. This degree will take your understanding of the concepts and theories of mathematics – and how they are Beginning to study applied in the real world – to an advanced level, and enhance Our Access modules have been specially designed to help you your career prospects in a huge array of fields. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT find out what it’s like to study with the OU, get a taste for the subjects we offer, develop your study skills, build your BSc (Hons) Computing and IT (Q63) confidence and prepare you for further study. You may even Computing and IT skills have become fundamental to the be able to study for free. To find out more visit way we live, work, socialise and play. This degree course Digital technologies have changed the way we In this pack you will see how computation www.openuniversity.co.uk/ug-access opens up the world of technology and an array of exciting work, shop, socialise, and are entertained. changed over time, from early calculating devices career opportunities. It will help you to become a confident Affordable education user and manager of information technologies, to administer Behind them lie clever algorithms – step by step to modern computers, who are some of the and manage network or database systems, and to develop procedures that detect where we are and women and men behind major breakthroughs, Studying with the OU is more affordable than you might think. new software solutions to meet specific market or Depending on where you live we have a range of options to organisational needs. suggest a route, predict the weather, recognise what are the fundamental concepts and the help make study more affordable. 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