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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...world is changing – and changing fast. In many areas of life the old certainties are no more, and new solutions to old, new and future problems are needed. To survive, organisations have had to become more responsive and flexible enough to react quickly to environmental changes. Moreover, in high-wage economies, they have had to become creative enough to add value...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...world until Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Famously, Columbus made his voyage of discovery of the New World in 1492. Medieval Christendom could not but be aware of its neighbours. Trade, diplomacy and conquest connected Christendom to the wider world, which in turn had an impact on art. The luxury oriental fabrics painstakingly represented in paintings by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...World War, is impossible to ignore. In terms of both the volume of sales and translation into other languages (over 100), her work is unparalleled in the history of publishing. As Charles Rzepka puts it, Christie is ‘not only the most prolific and popular author of detective fiction in the twentieth century, but the world’s best-selling writer, ever’ (a record which...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...World Anti-Doping Agency, 2021). While a prohibited substance is probably easily understood, a prohibited method needs a little further explanation. For example, a prohibited method might include genetic manipulation to gain advantage. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues...Doping: a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...World for BBC2. Morris brought animal behaviour to television audiences, as opposed to simply showing live animals in studio settings, where behaviour was difficult to capture. He returned to television in the late 1970s with a series The Human Race, which went beyond the traditional notion of animal behaviour to look at human behaviour. Transcript Desmond Morris Earth in...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...world entirely run by benevolent, all-knowing machines in this dialogue between characters in his short story The Evitable Conflict': '... Stephen, if I am right, it means that the machine is conducting our future for us ... How do we know what the ultimate good of humanity will entail? We haven't at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! ... We...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)

...world diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), you may have seen recent media stories about advances in the use of drugs to treat this complex and unpredictable neurological condition. I have read many such stories over the last 15 years since being diagnosed. Often these have been sent to me by well-meaning friends or family desperate to let me know there is hope, the...
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Article 5 mins
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...world. I am curious about our diversity in communicating and the challenges for those individuals or groups who find themselves struggling to be heard. I have found it tough to whittle down my course selection, but I would prioritise the following areas of study on OpenLearn: The history of communication from earliest pictorial characters to our modern emojis. Maybe we...
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Article 5 mins