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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...study focuses on an issue often referred to as WASH. Which stands for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Manual drilling refers to techniques for drilling boreholes for drinking and irrigation water that don’t use power machinery. Make notes of the stakeholders and their interests by completing the stakeholder importance and influence matrix. You have to estimate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...study in the Arts. You might be interested in a more recent Open University course, A111 Discovering the arts and humanities...Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read closely – analyse a passage from the play examine genre – what kind of play is Doctor Faustus? consider themes – what are the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How are insect wings helping replace antibiotics?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How are insect wings helping replace antibiotics?

...study. “The next step is to test the performance of the new surfaces on living animals,” says Kaushik Chatterjee, assistant professor at IISc and study leader. Chatterjee is already interacting with orthopaedic surgeons “to explore possible strategies for eventual clinical use”. Jafar Hasan, a member of the IISc research team, says the method could also work for...
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Article 5 mins
Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
Society, Politics & Law

Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19

...studies with The Open University (OU) have helped her to support Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members during this challenging time: OU/EIS Microcredentials Case Study: https://www.open.ac.uk/scotland/partnerships/unions/pauline-mccolgan Scottish Union Learning Fringe event on the impact of COVID-19 in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvkjNg31gaI EIS...
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Hard Choices: How Would You React?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hard Choices: How Would You React?

...study is based on real life experiences of social workers, but for the purpose of this activity all characters have been fictionalised and details have also been greatly simplified. As you read through each stage of the case study, you will be asked to stop and make a decision. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers - different people have different needs and values, and...
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From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture
Digital & Computing

From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture

...comments box below this article. Study with The Open University Find out more about opportunities to study computing at the OU Find out about the OU’s lead role in the Institute of Coding Introduction to computing and information technology 1 (TM112) Introduction to cybersecurity: say safe online Information security Introduction to computing and information technology...
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What is the Neurodiversity Hub?
Education & Development

What is the Neurodiversity Hub?

...study and everyday life. Why Neurodiversity? Neurodiversity can be thought of broadly as the range of different ways individual’s brains function across a population. An individual whose brain may function differently can be thought of as neurodivergent and it is these individuals that make up a neurodiverse population. Common forms of neurodivergence such as Autism,...
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War, Intervention and Development
Nature & Environment

War, Intervention and Development

...study. This material is taken from The Open University course TU875 War, intervention and development... War, Intervention and Development A short introduction to this album. The Sierra Leone Sanctions Debate A discussion of sanctions, with specific reference to Sierra Leone, and how they have an impact on the population concerned Pushing too hard for elections An...
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Audio 2 hrs 11 mins