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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...work context. Finally, you will obtain hands on experience in collecting and using secondary sources of information in the context of researching and making this organisational change...This free course explores how to use data to inform a change you would like to make within your business or organisational context. It looks at the type of evidence you can gather to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...social distancing’ are likely to be. Whether all of these will be remembered as terms that defined a particular period in history but which, once social norms began to change, started sounding very much of their time. The phrase ‘fake news’...its meaning became stretched to cover everything from deliberately deceitful propaganda to mild criticisms of legitimate...
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Video 15 mins
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...social and economic change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to...
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Article 5 mins
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...social support at work. The idea of perfectionists overcoming perfectionism by thinking about ‘flexible goals and degrees of success and failure’ is very useful. A degree of success or failure means being kind to yourself and recognising, for instance, that scoring yourself 6 or 7 out of 10 is entirely acceptable if you know how to improve to 8 out of 10. In summary,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...social factors, such as poor diet and long working hours, which were also associated with death in childbirth. Their chosen solution to these problems was to encourage women to give birth in hospital, in sterile conditions and with medical staff on hand. The proportion of births taking place in hospitals began to rise at this time – from 15% in 1927 to 24% in 1933. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...work for the castaways to talk about their life and work. To mark the 75th birthday, we've chosen half a dozen episodes - all available to listen to now - with some of the people whose thoughts and work have shaped the world we live in. Denys Lasdun [Royal National Theatre] Royal National Theatre Denys Lasdun was a leading architect, one of the foremost Brutalist...
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Audio 10 mins
Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...work of Colette Bryce...Colette Bryce was born in 1970 in Derry, Northern Ireland. The Troubles were part of everyday life for her, as a child and a teenager. She emigrated to Britain in 1988 and has since lived mainly in London and the north of England. Bryce describes emigration as a key experience in her adult life: it informs an ‘outsiderness’ in her poetry. Bryce...
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Article 5 mins
Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Social Sciences for her work on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex and transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. Transcript Race Equality Charter: Lessons Learned The next session involved a presentation by Professor Marcia Wilson from the University of East London on her experience of leading a successful submission for...
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Video 3 hrs