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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...change and teaching and learning transformation supported by new technologies; clients included the US Department of Defense and other US Government Agencies. He cofounded the College of Exploration in 1991. This largely all online not-for-profit educational project has developed programs on co-exploring leadership, environment, and technology. Nearly 20,000 educators,...
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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...change. Ensuring consumers realise there is no reason for any item of clothing to end up in landfill – because it can all be re-used, donated or recycled is vital in reducing the impact our clothes have on the environment. Check out the Love Your Clothes website for hints and advice on how you can get the most out of your wardrobe. Love Your Clothes was developed by...
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Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...changed only a little regarding conversations about withholding life-prolonging treatment. Last time they were dismissive; this time they were embarrassed. The only advice they volunteered was that keeping him on a drip was “… not a long-term solution…” the “tion” resonating like a bad bout of tinnitus. The rest of the necessary information I extracted through...
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Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...change in Byzantine style and iconography was excruciatingly slow. Similarly colour, while able to add a dimension of variation in certain scenes, was not totally independent from theological debates and scrutiny. The relative limited repertoire of scenes – and to an extent palette - in Byzantine art reflect Christian beliefs and are not a manifestation of the...
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Article 10 mins
Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...changed their lives. An introduction to health and social care Professor Joanna Bornat of the K101 course team gives an overview of The Open University course. Living with MS: the battle for funding The long process of assessing, awarding and allocating funds for necessary specialised accomodation. Housing journeys: Lyn's story A lifetime's personal experience of...
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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...changes you can make in your own work and practice to improve people’s lives. You will also meet a panel of experts who will bring their perspectives to the issues raised throughout the course. Our experts are: [An image of two people sitting at a table and smiling.] Dawn Wiltshire and Pam Bebbington are both members of My Life My Choice, a self-advocacy organisation...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...change in Britain in the years after the French Revolution...Wilberforce: 1.1 Early influences - In the early summer of 1771, the clergyman and writer John Newton (1725–1807) was visited at Olney by two of his admirers, William and Hannah Wilberforce, a wealthy childless couple, and their 11-year-old nephew and heir, also named William. Newton made a profound impression...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...changes over time. However, biologists remain ignorant about what the ancestors of monotremes looked like and what historic relationship they had with the evolutionary lines that gave rise to marsupial and placental mammals. In the section you have just read, there were a number of references to pages in LoM given in square brackets [ ]. Indeed, unless stated otherwise,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs