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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...skills you need to study with us. And we have all sorts of foundation level courses. And we do have a preparedness to study at the OU open course on our OpenLearn platform. There are some digital literacy skills. And there are some digital capability skills which are out there. But we never thought to apply that to ourselves. So some of this is organisational. Some......
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...Studies, and the beauty of area studies is the sheer diversity of insight that one can draw upon. You share your academic life with linguists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, classicists and every other shade of discipline in between. However, if you don’t have a strong disciplinary affinity yourself, then you can find yourself scratching around,...
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Article 5 mins
Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...study Systems Design at Saybrook University in California with Bela Banathy. As an executive in residence at Arizona State University Center for Ethics he studied the deregulation of the telephone industry. He was a guest faculty at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1988-1990 co-teaching a developmental course called “Creative Problem Solving”...
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What does climate change mean for Pakistan?
Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...study is the first to show the country’s heat-wave trajectory forecasts a 75 per cent increase in heat waves by 2030, a 189 per cent by 2060 and a 277 per cent increase by 2090. “This means the country will experience around 12 heat wave events annually by 2030, 20 such events by 2060 and 26 events by 2090,” says Wajid Nasim, lead author and associate professor at...
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Article 5 mins
Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...study and other aspects of your life with our time management tips article... Time management and study 4: Get used to using online forums [Student at her desk with a laptop, phone and notebook] Perhaps you're doing most of your studying online or partaking in blended learning? Do you need to use online forums at all? Does posting your thoughts in an online learning forum...
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Article 5 mins
Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?

...study in India claims. Using health data from rural India, Marco Haenssgen, a health systems researcher at Oxford University and author of the study, found lower access to private care in areas where most people own mobile phones. This was especially the case for people without mobiles who live in areas with high ownership of these devices. Using data from the 2005 and...
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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...studied by Open University students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues past and present in the West of Ireland and provide a snapshot of changes to aspects of economy and society in two Irish case study areas first looked at by Pat Jess in 1983: the area around Glencolmcille in Southwest Donegal and...
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Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand what professional regulation is and how social work is regulated explain the differences in social work’s regulatory and legal frameworks across the four UK nations understand the interrelationship between duties, powers, rights and responsibilities, as these relate to social work practice...Social work law and UK...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs