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Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Badged Online Courses (BOCs), are a great way to maintain your continuing professional development. Free online seminars such as TED Talks are also an excellent way to increase your knowledge and awareness of current issues. Finally, do remember, it’s your job that has been made redundant, not you! You can reframe your redundancy...
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Article 5 mins
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...Open University have a role to play in such debates. BBC broadcasts such as the OU co-produced Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots help inform the debate, describing recent advances to a wide audience, and the OU’s OpenLearn free learning resources provide a next step towards learning more. Using questions such as the ones raised by the House of Lords Select Committee...
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Understanding tax avoidance
Money & Business

Understanding tax avoidance

...opens up larger questions about the fairness of the economic system and the responsibility of corporations to society. This episode of the Bottom Line looks at these timely themes in depth. A deceptively simple question: what is tax avoidance? In particular, how can we distinguish it from tax evasion? Tax avoidance is the legal use of the given system to minimise one’s...
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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...resources. [A woman speaks to her grandmother who has dementia] What are the symptoms? Every person will experience dementia differently and some of the signs are not always obvious. Hence, there's usually a late diagnosis. Some of the most common symptoms include: Difficulty recalling recent events but remembering the past Unable to make decisions Problems with finding...
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Article 20 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...Open University's Music courses and qualifications Music can be appreciated in a number of different ways and on a number of different levels. For some people, music is essentially a sensual, physical experience – the urge to move the body and to dance to certain pieces of music can often prove irresistible. For other people, though, enjoyment and pleasure is gained...
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Article 10 mins
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Open University’s Language Studies qualification. How and why has English changed over time? In this brief introduction to the subject, I will show how we can look at the history of a language in two main ways: externally – where, why and by whom the language was used; the political and social factors causing change – and internally – the pronunciation, grammar,...
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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...Course image Basheer Tome in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...Open University, interviews Dr Sayantan Banerjee, a statistician from IIM-Indore...[Photo of Sayantan Banerjee] Dr Sayantan Banerjee Dr. Sayantan Banerjee is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-Indore). He has a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State...
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