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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...Conception: ‘The journey begins’ - To write about projects, we have to define what they are and describe how they arise. This course will concentrate on describing what a project is, and how it can arise as a part of a planning process, as a response to a changing environment, as a business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often...
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...concept is a bit like McDonald’s declaring itself a “community of hamburger eaters.” There is nothing in particular that ties Facebook users together, aside from a basic, unremarkable pleasure that human beings take in connecting with one another. And Facebook does not have terms of use—it has “Community Standards,” a term that gives the impression that we all...
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...concepts in stem cell research. The endgame was never meant to be armies of genetically identical livestock: Rather, researchers continue to refine the techniques and combine them with other methods to turbocharge traditional animal breeding methods as well as gain insights into aging and disease. Not the usual sperm + egg Dolly was a perfectly normal sheep who became the...
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...concept that cultural identity is, as Stuart Hall, former professor of sociology at the Open University, once remarked, ‘always a matter of becoming as well as of being.’ [Map of MK] Map of Milton Keynes European Capital of Culture 2023 Milton Keynes has a brazen attitude to its own paradoxes. It calls itself a city, even though technically it is not. It is the mother...
Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare

...conception of this very difficult and I may almost say incomprehensible character, is admirable; his delivery of all the fine long speeches quite beautiful; he is excessively graceful and all his actions and attitudes are good, though not at all good-looking in face; the two finest scenes I thought were the play scene, which he acts, they say, quite differently to any...
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...concept album as he ever got – with each song portraying the sleazy underbelly of a city and offering a tough, realist look at the constant fight between morality and survival. [Album cover - Rory Gallagher, "Defender"] Album cover for Defender. Source: Wikimedia Commons On the album’s opener, ‘Kickback City’, Gallagher perfectly captures the gritty urban...
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...concepts about jobs, professions, industries/businesses and sectors. As a result, you should have a more complete understanding of how your job fits into the parts of the economy most related to the area of your work, or that which you wish to enter – the bigger picture. You also spent some time considering how these might affect your perspective on your work and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...concepts of interest to social scientists. The last point I want to make is, this is not just an academic book. I think it’s a public interest book. I've written it so that it is accessible and readable and it is in the practical world as well. Because I do try and say something about: okay, these are places of interest, but what do they tell us? What do they mean? Why...