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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. This course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. It can be used to provide evidence of continuing professional development and on successful completion of the course you will be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...project, a guided community walk or a park visit help our wellbeing? This article explores how to engage with the outdoors...In recent years it has become a well-known fact that getting outdoors is good for our mental and physical wellbeing. It’s even better when we actively engage with green and blue spaces through activities and practical tasks. In the wake of the...
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Article 10 hrs 34 mins
28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...project. The war is over Twenty years ago, on July 28th 2005, the IRA ordered an end to its armed campaign and authorised its representative or interlocutor to engage with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (the IICD) to complete the process of putting its arms beyond use. This date, two decades ago, is the starting point for this next phase in...
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Article 5 mins
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...Project? What discoveries did you make in the process that have found a place in your artistic intervention? Laura: I addressed the question in Who Are We? with a brand new piece work. I think the most pressing issue when we think of identity is economy because economy overrides everything else: race, class, gender, sexual identity all become secondary to capital. This...
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Article 5 mins
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...management committee was organised. Dr Clarke further went on to raise funds from BBC Children in Need and the Local Health Authority for the first three years of the project. This was to pay the wages of a co-ordinator, an administrator and two sessional nursery nurses. At the outset, the project (as it was called) was located in the health centre in the hope that it...
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Article 15 mins
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...manage. In the second of a two-part series, Professor Andrew Blowers talks with Dr Petr Jehlička about the short and long-term future of the nuclear industry, and how different countries’ economic conditions have shaped their political responses to nuclear hazards. Transcript Petr Jehlička: Hello and welcome back. I am Petr Jehlička from the Department of Geography...
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Audio 5 mins
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...Introduction - In this section about communicating well, you will look at the different ways in which we communicate, whether we are aware of it or not. Communication is something we all do, but if you are caring for someone, either paid or unpaid, the way you communicate can have a significant impact on your relationship with that person. You will be checking your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...project we would not be speaking about FLOSS now. Bob needs to define a graphic language, a standard for the collaboration. Doing that is already a major part, possibly the most important part of the creative work. Whoever works with Bob will need to accept and follow these standards, relinquish control and conform to Bob’s predefined graphic language. These artificial...
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Article 10 mins