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Online training support for businesses
Money & Business

Online training support for businesses

...social learning platform offering free flexible, distance learning content to support upskilling in industry. This new, innovative business learning hub enhances learning and development opportunities for SMEs across Northern Ireland by giving access to best practice learning on entrepreneurial leadership across three core themes: Leadership and management;
Ethics in real life
History & The Arts

Ethics in real life

...with The Open University's Derek Matravers. Plagiarism and copyright law Nigel Warburton explores with the author, Maureen Duffy, the ethics of plagiarism and copyright law. Business ethics Derek Matravers talks to The Open University's Anya Shaefer about business ethics, comparing the profit maximisation view of business with the corporate social responsibility model....
Origins of The Cold War
History & The Arts

Origins of The Cold War

...politics of blame during The Cold War Has there been too much emphasis on the superpowers? Western European integration How did all the stakeholders reconcile their competing agenda’s? Domestic concerns vs Foreign policy How did domestic issues help to shape the cold war? The Cold War on a local level The impact of the Cold War from a social and cultural perspective....
Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...work on culture, who suggested people were shaped by a ‘structure of feeling’: this was ‘as firm and definite as “structure” suggests, yet it operates in the most delicate and least tangible parts of our activity’. With ethos being both structural and constitutive, it provides the lifeblood of institutions and actors, yet has the capacity to interact and...
OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...social care, and Sport and Exercise, the choice you indicated on your form does not restrict your actual study choices. You don’t have to stick to the subjects suggested below, or what you entered on your registration form, you are free to mix and match any combination of subjects and courses, as long as the courses you choose support your study goals. The OpenLearn...
Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...work or actions have had a notable impact on British life and have helped shape British ‘heritage’. [English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell]English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell. But ideas about what constitutes British heritage have altered radically between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the...
Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...social equality. But what might the future bring? Dr Samuel Shaw from The Open University speaks to experts from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely...
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...work, social or family life? Have those changes improved your life? Have they created any problems? Discussion The biggest change for me has been the ability to work from home. I’m currently at home typing this text on a computer while listening to some music, which is also stored on the computer. I’ll shortly email my document to a colleague, who will be able to read...
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