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Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...education might learn from each other. You will have the opportunity to first explore a number of conversations from OU academics with artists and media practitioners whose work and engaged practice, uses visual, audio, and digital arts, film, photography, theatre and the spoken word. You will then engage with some aspects of public participation during the ‘Who Are...
Explore OpenLearn from The Open University
Miscellaneous

Explore OpenLearn from The Open University

...our range of Sport and Fitness with The Open University, and discover the flexible way to get the degree you’ve been dreaming of. Do you want to try even more free courses? View our full course catalogue here. We've hundreds to choose from! Let us help you get university-ready Get helpful guidance on taking that move into higher education with the free resources below....
Where to take your learning next
Education & Development

Where to take your learning next

...educational backgrounds. So, we offer a choice of starting points depending on how confident you are in your study skills. Click here to find out more about the Access modules. Making your learning count YXM130 is our flexible OU level 1 module, which allows you to count previous or current study from OpenLearn, or other types of previous learning towards OU...
World in transition: Migration and Trade
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Migration and Trade

...educational value of the audio-visual material and explains the course structure. This material is taken from The Open University Course U213 International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition... World in transition: migration and trade Introducing the album's content Small change for a better world Micro-credit unions, how they work and how they are...
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...based on Buddhist economics. Economics and accounting of the future? Alan Shipman and Dr Mike Lucas of The Open University discuss the problems of adopting new business models in a world where accounting and business education are still dominated by profit-maximising ‘shareholder value’, and the challenges ahead for those pursuing a Buddhist economics alternative....
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...technology concepts, such as encapsulation and inheritance. Building models is an important activity throughout software development whatever approach is taken; models represent different aspects of the system and are built from different points of view. You will learn about the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a (primarily) diagrammatic language, to express models in an...
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...technology. Then spend a few minutes searching for technologies that have helped AM develop as a viable manufacturing option. Make some notes on a few reasons or related technological advances that have helped this development. Discussion Your answer may include consideration of technologies such as: CAD and modelling for creating virtual shapes (i.e. digital modelling)...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...technology is highlighted...This free course, How teams work, provides an introduction to working in virtual project teams by explaining terms and concepts related to teams and to projects. The complexity of the interaction of people and technology is highlighted....How teams work: Introduction - In this course we shall explore some of the concepts, issues and theories...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs