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Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...STIP in my professional context working in sustainability. I have been learning by doing systems practice for the past 5 years or so, using diagramming to better understand and communicate complex situations. I'm now a postgraduate student, continuing to learn about systems techniques and lineages, aiming to improve my systemic perception of the world as I see it”....
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Audio 15 mins
Early childhood health promotion
Education & Development

Early childhood health promotion

...health promotion work is the need for respectful and positive relationships with parents and carers. The findings helped to set the onward agenda for a larger scale study which will foreground the voices of practitioners and highlight the role that ECEC practitioners can play in promoting the health of children. [Connecting Unseen Dots] Download video transcript...
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Video 45 mins
Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...work of one man prepared the way. But few people today know of the achievements of Ronald Aylmer Fisher. The four video tracks on this album investigate the enduring legacy of a largely unknown genius. The material forms part of the course SMK184 Chance, Risk... Chance, Risk and Health A short introduction to this album. Reinventing Statistics Fisher's principles are at...
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Audio 30 mins
Imagining Scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Imagining Scientists

...work began in the 1950s when two cultural anthropologists, called Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux, drew on the perceptions of American high-school students to produce a image of a scientist. Their findings, published in the journal Science, described a stereotype that still features in some forms of popular culture. The Open University's Dr Richard Holliman reflects on...
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Audio 13 mins
Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...work to model the entire planet's ecosystems, simulating the complex physical, chemical and biological interactions taking place between every living organism and climatic activity. Since everything is interconnected, Earth systems modelling can help our understanding of how the Earth's processes affect each other. For example, by increasing the rate of decay of leaf...
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Audio 12 mins
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...succeeding generations of songwriters through to the present day. A selection of Schubert's settings of Goethe's poems is discussed in this course, with recordings provided for you to listen to. The poems, in German with parallel translations into English and the music scores of four of the song settings are also included. You are not expected to be able to read the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...work-life balance to avoid burning out, and might consider adopting mindfulness practices to enhance their efficiency and better cope with the pressure of the modern workplace. Yet this preoccupation with narrow economic value is being challenged and expanded by broader conceptions of business or organisational value. Here value is defined as the ability of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...working. Following extensive research with pain specialists across the UK and internationally, we’ve developed a framework for delivering effective pain management for children. There are four components. The first is creating knowledgeable, confident practitioners. Many nurses can feel nervous about giving too much pain medicine. And when nurses are not feeling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs