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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Open-loop recycling. * Resources Materials found in the environment that can be extracted from the environment in an economic process. There are abiotic resources (non-renewable) and biotic resources (renewable). * Scope The agreed boundaries of a risk assessment and the risks to be assessed within those boundaries. * Shareholders Any person or organisation that holds...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Tell us how you learn online
Education & Development

Tell us how you learn online

...Open Online Course (MOOC) activities. The survey was created by the EU-funded project BizMOOC, of which The Open University is a partner. You can find out more about the project and the project partners on the website bizmooc.eu. With the help of your input, the BizMOOC project will produce and publish an interactive, open access MOOC BOOK containing contain good practice...
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Article 5 mins
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...open the sandy-haired 18-year-old’s finger. “After this he cuts with a scalpel on the side of my finger – yes, he cuts my finger open,” Michael recalled moments later, looking decidedly pale as he smiled nervously before the flashing cameras. After sterilising the table and numbing Michael’s finger with a local anaesthetic, “he uses – I don’t really know...
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Article 10 mins
60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Special relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Special relativity

Who had more fun in life, Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman? Whichever one of them was travelling faster...Find out about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Transcript Read Andrew Norton on the framework of special relativity and examples of measured time dilation and length contraction Discover how you can study physics and astronomy with The Open University
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Video 5 mins
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Establishing the context: Introduction - In Session 1 you started learning about risk management. It defined what is meant by ‘risk’, and discussed why managing risk is important, what happens when risk is well managed and what can happen when it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rocks in the field
Science, Maths & Technology

Rocks in the field

...Open University's Glynda Easterbrook and fellow geologist Tony Lee as they visit Northern Ireland to look at some amazing rock forms and some fascinating successions of different depositional environments. This material forms part of The Open University course S260 Geology... Rocks in the field Intro to album, as per album description. Giant's Causeway The Open...
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Audio 36 mins
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: References - Bailey, C. (2016) The Productivity Project. New York: Crown Business. Clutterbuck, D. (2014) Everyone needs a mentor. 5th edn. London: Kogan Page Publishers. Connor, M. P. and Pokora, J. B. (2007) Coaching and Mentoring...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...Open University’s events marking Black History Month, I was invited to give a presentation on the connection between the management curriculum and our colonial heritage. In particular, I tried to problematise the ways in which a ‘Western-centric’ and stereotypical idea of culture is taught in mainstream management curriculum. I tried, furthermore, to underline...
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Video 40 mins