3,739 search results
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...
View article Redundancy - what are your next steps?
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...
View article Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Article 10 mins
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...
View article Understanding tax avoidance
Article 5 mins
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...
View article Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Article 20 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some initial judgements of...
View course Discovering development management
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...educated members of an elite, millionaire set. David Cameron’s Cabinet was notably composed of members of the ‘Bullingdon club’– the infamous Oxford University dining club. Even in Theresa May’s Cabinet, which has the lowest number of private-school educated ministers since 1945, 33% of the total positions are held by an Oxbridge educated group, whilst most of...
View article Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Article 10 mins
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the ‘disciplines’ which...
View article Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Article 10 mins
Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year

...of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. The Chinese New Year of 2020 falls on January 25th (Saturday), and the festival will last to February 8th, about 15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
View article Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Article 5 mins