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Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...changed over time. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T849 Strategic capabilities for technological innovation...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the genesis and continuing development of the resource-based view of organisations...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...changing role in society. So now we have three things that help distinguish sociology. First, sociologists study what happens when people do things together. Second, they are interested in collective rather than individual phenomena. Third, they tend to focus on things that persist over time as well as moments in which they change. From here, we can begin to fill in more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...change in leadership at the local health ministry is a much stronger pitch. Use various sources Include some information about who you are going to talk to, demonstrating a mix of independent sources and those involved in the story. Many editors like to see a minimum of two sources, at least one of them independent from the main source. Watch the detail Ensure clarity and...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...changes along the way. They might forget their childhood, their personality traits and their interests and attachments might change. So would we really have the same person at the end as we had at the start? A second question concerns the desirability of immortality. Is immortality something we should want? It might be suggested that immortality would make our lives more...
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Audio 10 mins
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...change will continue at a much slower pace than the past few decades. Maybe we will see a return to evolutionary rather than revolutionary change and the technologies we have now will still be around – much faster, more sophisticated and ubiquitous of course, but still recognisable. Or maybe some combination of economic, social and environmental apocalypse will cause...
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Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...change gradually over time. And, perhaps paradoxically, notation can also enable music to change more rapidly than it does in oral traditions. It is difficult for an avant-garde composer to make an impact without the medium of notation through which to spread his work, so it tends to be written music which generates radical departures from tradition (recordings have...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...change frequently during a normal trading cycle, for example bulk goods. It is a useful device for obtaining security over a company’s current assets, as it allows a company to deal freely with such assets, and provides a wider range of assets that can be charged. A floating charge does not attach to any particular asset until crystallisation occurs. Crystallisation...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...changing if behaviours are to change. Aspirations need a process if they are to be realised. A strong version of this approach would look towards ‘positive discrimination’ or compensatory action. Examples from education are the Sure Start programme for early years education in the UK – or Head Start in the US. You will note that these are targeted – rather than...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs