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Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...educational institutions, book publishers and reports such as this one from the World Health Organization. On top of this, systems thinking is used in UK policy making at both local and national government, has influenced the work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on the Circular Economy and is thought to be an important facet of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...education, their stony wills; has developed into a political movement, quite apart from Marxianism, which threatens to harden into almost as rigorous an extremism as Leninism itself." SEANDAMER This language managed to do something very clever. It conflated the alleged Bolshevism of Glasgow with its slums. The deviant slum image of the middle of the nineteenth century had...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...educational wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...de facto standard. However, document management software has to be capable of accepting many different types of file, produced by a variety of applications. This complicated the technical design of the package enormously. Third, as suggested earlier, drafting and design processes, at a detailed level at least, are well denned. Engineering drawings are pretty much standard...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...education and a strong sense of national identity, and these factors interplay with the social hierarchies of its political and government structures. However, there are common risks and constraining factors beyond the moral economies I have been talking about. Some were perceived by the villagers, others were identified by the research team. Of the projects instigated by...
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Video 15 mins
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Educational Supplement looked at the teaching sector and declared that not just the winter of 2011, but the whole of the year had been a winter of discontent. But, surely, things could only get better? No. "Any hopes that 2012 is likely to be warmer should be extinguished: the forecast is bleak" warned the paper, pulling its jacket closer around its shoulders. 2012...
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Article 5 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini political system...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...education technology. His research has earned him recognition including The Open University’s Research Excellence Award runner-up and a Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference. The final episode of this series explores misogynoir, which is a form of online hate targeting Black women. It discusses the meaning of the term and why it is necessary to...
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Audio 30 mins