Nature & Environment
Recycling and Waste
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Money & Business
Understanding organisational value
...open education so attractive in the first place. Then it must consider what its competitive advantage is within this marketplace. Once it has done so it can then set about (1) identifying organisational objectives (2) developing strategies and organisational designs (3) identify ‘value drivers’ (4) develop actions plans, select measures, and set clear targets and (5)...
Society, Politics & Law
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
...open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining a ‘safe distance’ from that process. Autoethnography reverses this dynamic as it sees the researcher turn the ‘lens’ on themselves, recounting their own stories and...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
...Open University and The Parks Trust Milton Keynes’ collaboration, we have been focussing on how greenspaces are crucial resources to help us into ageing well. It is well noted that greenspaces enhance the health of those who engage with them. Benefits of Greenspaces Today, the benefits of interacting with nature for our health are well-known, from the physical;...
Science, Maths & Technology
Europa: a collection
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
...Open University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications [British nurse taking older man's blood pressure in nurse's office] Forging relationships We all can probably recount our personal experiences of receiving some form of nursing care. This might have been as a patient in hospital, in a community or doctor’s clinic or in some other kind of health service...
History & The Arts
How do historians know about the past?
...level, the free course 'Taking your first steps in Higher Education' or the introductory module 'Arts and languages access module' can help you to decide which path to take and prepare you for study. You can study history at The Open University through BAs in History, Humanities, or the Open BA, all of which are best begun via the module ‘The Arts Past and Present....
Health, Sports & Psychology
A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
...Open University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications. E-professionalism is "the attitudes and behaviours that reflect traditional professionalism paradigms but are manifested through digital media" (Kacznarcyzk et al., 2013). Professional bodies such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2016, United Kingdom) have specific guidance on the use of social...