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Nature & Environment
Make a bird house
The total area of garden space in the UK is probably greater than that of all the nation's nature reserves. Converting just a small section of your garden into a breeding place for birds can make a small but significant contribution to the survival of bird species.
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Digital & Computing
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
The future of the workplace is continuing to evolve, and digital transformation is accelerating, requiring new digital capabilities, behaviours and understanding. There has been a widening of the digital divide and data shows that in the UK the skills gap is growing with a shortage of people with digital skills. Nearly all jobs have some ...
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Money & Business
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Starting in a new workplace – whether it’s your first 'proper' job after finishing your education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Introducing technology and innovation management
This free course will introduce you to technology and innovation management and is relevant to managers and students of technological innovation. You will learn about innovation types and processes, how innovation can add or create value, and about the management activities that underpin the innovation and value creation process. You do not ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Ada Lovelace Day
Marking the day celebrating Ada Lovelace, discover the intriguing story of her life, Charles Babbage, and their role in the 19th century development of the computer.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The OU Welcomes Carers
Carers face significant challenges combining work and education with caring responsibilities. The Open University helps get carers back into education and this article explains how much support is available.
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Society, Politics & Law
Introduction to making political and social change
Written in a moment of multiple crises – environmental, economic, political, social and health-related – ‘An Introduction to making political and social change’ gives you a grounding in some of the key citizenship skills and information you will need to intervene in the world as it changes around you. This free course explores how you can make ...
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Nature & Environment
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
With many people preferring to work from home, whether hybrid or full time, this article examines the carbon footprint cost of remote working.
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Digital & Computing
Designing interactive systems for dogs
Why is designing interactive systems from a user-centred perspective so important for professional dogs?
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Society, Politics & Law
Understanding Milton Keynes
Much like The Open University, its home Milton Keynes took a less than conventional approach when it was designed. Watch our feature-length videos.
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Society, Politics & Law
Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
The countries that contribute the least to climate change are facing the greatest financing difficulties in addressing its impacts. What do we know about how climate change will affect the macroeconomy?
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Digital & Computing
Blockchain in Education
Blockchain technologies brought new solutions to the world of finance. Will education see similar changes? Read this article by Professor John Domingue and Doctor Alexander Mikroyannidis to start exploring the possibilities of blockchain in education.