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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...system. Although you can use the alternative formats offline for your own convenience, you do need to work through the online version of the course for full functionality (such as accessing links, using the audio and video materials, and completing the quizzes). Please use the downloads as convenient tools for studying the materials when away from the internet and return...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in jury decision-making lie, and, if possible, to overcome these shortcomings. We know from both everyday decision making and...
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Article 5 mins
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons, something almost alien. The author L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ But in truth, history is all around us. It is today, because without the recording of actions of people now, there would be nothing to study in the future. The way we...
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Article 5 mins
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...systemic marginalisations. Planning how the data collected is going to be critically interrogated to provide EDI-sensitive answers to the research questions is an integral part of the methodological approach of the research design and needs to be congruent with the aims of the research and the methods of data gathering – whether quantitative or qualitative. Doing this...
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Article 15 mins
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...think about taking other courses. ['Personal branding for career success' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...thinking about what resilience means to you, how you picture it, and considering your own definition, image or metaphor for resilience. Note down your thoughts in the box below or in the interactive toolkit. As mentioned in the Introduction and guidance, there are places for you to make notes in the ‘Activities’ section of the toolkit. To open the toolkit, click this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Geography Matters: A Collection
Society, Politics & Law

Geography Matters: A Collection

...thinking about studying with the OU, looking for some extra reading between modules, or just wanting to learn more about Geography, the Geography Matters collection is the place to be. If you are an existing OU student, there are more resources on the pages supporting Environmental Studies or Social Science. If you want to learn more about Geography at the Open...
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Video 5 mins
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...system purchase. In coming to a decision on whether to use savings, he may think about opportunity cost – the savings used to buy the music system will not then be available for him to purchase something else. He will also be giving up the future income, in the form of interest earned, on the savings that will be spent on the item. He might also compare debt costs with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs