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Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...technology, engineering and mathematics degree with the BSc Combined STEM. Finally, the MA/MSc Open is an innovative masters degree, which means you can expand your existing discipline-related knowledge to pursue options related to your professional development. People change jobs and careers throughout their life. The open qualifications enable you to align your study to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...technology provider, used a hard-hitting factual theme to convey the impact of global water consumption. It enhanced the creative execution of the advert through the endorsement of Manchester City Football Club: Video 6: Xylem ‘Manchester City’ advert (make sure to open this link in a new tab/window so you can easily return to this page). Slice of life ‘Slice of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...technological systems create ways of knowing that are caught up in the processes by which they remain coherent; because knowledge and social life are self-referential, their inequalities can seem self-evident, natural or even beneficial. The corollary is that inventing new ways to know the world allows that world to be changed. By exploring how we know we also learn about...
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Article 5 mins
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Renewable Energy
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Renewable Energy

...technology as well as build infrastructure. To this end, while market based policies such as carbon trading my reduce carbon emissions, massive government intervention is needed to positively fight climate change. Naomi Oreskes examines this issue in her article “Without Government, the Marketplace Will Not Solve Climate Change”. Is “green business” simply another...
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Article 5 mins
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’ might allow us to investigate potential future ways of life that are more responsive to contemporary social and environmental challenges. [Empathy tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and bio-sensing...
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Article 5 mins
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...technology means that some interventions may not be used by older people at all. Inequalities can also exist where older people do receive treatment. A previous article in this series highlighted the poor evidence that exists for some drug therapies in older people. Even where the evidence base in older people is better, it may still be skewed in certain population...
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Article 5 mins
Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...technology – and the influence it has on society – along with the perennial tendency for those in power to twist the truth to their own ends, which has created today’s particular crisis. The many forms of fake news Defining exactly what ‘fake news’ is can be a tricky business. This is partly to do with the term itself. On the face of it, it seems quite...
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Video 10 mins
Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...technological and labour-intensive systems and local authorities have to pay to use them. Whether they benefit from the sale of the processed materials depends on the terms of contract they have with the private company. Twin-stream systems offer a compromise, with the consumer doing a basic sort into two boxes and collection operatives then sorting the waste into...
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Article 10 mins