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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...think about your role in relation to this research. In this case, you can call yourself a ‘practitioner-researcher’, due to the fact that you are working within the organisational context in which you would like to make a change. Different types of practitioner-researcher can be categorised according to their relationship with the location or context of their project...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...thinking about entrepreneurship: what it is, how it works and why it is worth exploring. Figure 1 People have a tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs There is a widespread tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs and, as a consequence, to over-simplify a far more complex phenomenon. For example, some people see commercial entrepreneurs as a wholly positive force in society,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...think of an autonomous being as one who is able to determine the ‘shape’ of their life through reasoned free choices. The notion of autonomy can be clarified if we think about some concrete cases. Does a cat have autonomy when it notices, and then races after, a mouse? Presumably not, as the cat does not act for reasons. It does not consider whether it wants to be the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...thinking about assessment. Reflection point Consider what progress in mathematics means to you. Does it mean answering questions on harder concepts? Or does it mean answering more complex questions? Are you better at mathematics because you can complete lots of questions that are all the same, or because you can persevere with a problem and suggest different ways of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...think about work and the working class? Fill in our short survey and share your thoughts and memories...[John Woods of Tower Colliery] It is said that work defines the working class. In fact, according to Karl Marx’s classic analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...system based on universal principles of justice? This free course, Rights and justice in international relations, takes a critical view of the assumption that 'rights are a good thing' and looks at the problems that arise when they are applied in the international arena...Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Sir David Attenborough and The Open University
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough and The Open University

...thinks we are headed Transcript David Attenborough When I took over BBC2 I had the responsibility of turning Jennie Lee’s concept into practicality and working with The Open University as it was established, and looking back on it now the insuperable, the major problems that worried us all the time have simply evaporated, they don’t exist anymore. For example, The...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...thinking which can then drive changes in practice. This could be your practice if you work in one of these settings. It could be the practice of others, if you share what you are learning with professionals and volunteers in these settings, either in conversation or through more formal dissemination of what you have come to know. What you share could be insights from...
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Article 5 mins