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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...becomes poorer. The crop of Brexiteer politicians currently dominating British politics as well as seeming surprisingly incompetent also appear to be low in integrity. Their actions across the Brexit landscape violate standards of democratic accountability, trust and fairness in the pursuit of the ideological goals of eurosceptics and UKIP. Their mission also seems to be...
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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...becoming trivial occurrences in everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of...
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Article 15 mins
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...students who come to your university. [MUSIC PLAYING] An example of how the OU has tackled intersectionality in leadership is, recently, we’ve introduced a diversity statement for future executive leaders in their applications. So what this means is that the leader has to show the diversity thought, critical insight, their experience, and their engagement in it. So the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...become more apparent as we explore the different types of interviews and conversations you might undertake in your inquiry. Not all questions are answered by information – sometimes you will get opinions or feelings – and not all conversations are formal interviews with an interviewee, and so I’ll use the one term respondent to capture all the people that you’ll...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...become more prominent in criminology, and they have made issues of power and inequality central to their focus. According to these perspectives, a closer look is needed at the power of certain groups and institutions, notably the state, but also other powerful institutions including the media. Many of these newer criminological perspectives noted how the state and other...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...student through the process of locating evidence of reading Robinson Crusoe that is included in RED, and then, by means of exercises and linked ‘discussions’, shows how this evidence can be analyzed, and conclusions drawn from it. In working through this particular case study, students are learning not only about the reception of Robinson Crusoe, but are learning how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views
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Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views

...OU co-production, we may choose to create a 'discussion hub' to keep all the debate in one place, and to prevent duplicated or fragmentary conversations. For some interactive pieces of content, the comment box will appear on the launching page, rather than within the body of the content itself. Who can comment? Everyone is welcome to comment - although you will need to...
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Article 5 mins
DRM explained
Digital & Computing

DRM explained

...OU/BBC programme The Virtual Revolution, and we were lucky enough that he agreed to offer some extra insights for OpenLearn. For John Perry Barlow, DRM locks fundamentally break the system they're supposed to protect. Watch Listen Read John Perry Barlow I said that that was going to be a temporary and probably not very effective solution. I mean I think if I, I hope I...
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