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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...Introduction - Development is about change that is a result of human activity, and such change has happened throughout human existence. In this course, you will first examine a particular framing of change processes − that associated with industrialisation and the concept of a ‘modern’ society. The view of development as modernisation emerged clearly in the 1950s...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. Completing this course and gaining the badge will count towards part of the first assessment of the Open University Masters module EE830 Educating the next generation. The Open University...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...Managers in both firms explained these results as stemming from higher expectations held by co-owners. So, to what extent do these firms offer encouragement that co-ownership might provide a viable alternative to conventional firms? Co-ownership does not provide a simple, direct read-across to high commitment and high reward. But, they do offer the potential for shared...
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Article 5 mins
Finding creativity in orbit?
Science, Maths & Technology

Finding creativity in orbit?

...manage: What arrant (utter, complete) arrogance to suggest that scientists and engineers are not “creative” – which is the implication of the statement “…..what happens this time when you send creative people?”. The scientists and engineers who conceive and design, for example, the Large Hadron Collider, the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Rosetta mission to land on...
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Article 5 mins
Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges
Education & Development

Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges

...manageable PL interventions that: are practitioner-driven are fully integrated into classroom practice inspire significant changes in approaches to teaching practice and inspire creative pedagogies enable practitioners to develop new perspectives and opportunities have an interdisciplinary outlook build on the strengths of the stakeholders involved. Learning opportunities...
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Video 5 mins
Bodies in transition – children starting school
Education & Development

Bodies in transition – children starting school

...manage their bodies in particular ways in the new space of the school. For instance, they described learning to use the soap dispenser in the bathroom, timing their physical needs and sitting in particular ways at particular times of the day. Interestingly, the most photographed objects from the photo tours were the chairs in the school hall which they could sit on at...
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Article 5 mins
What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...Management. See a full list of OU Business School courses Image credits: butterly emerging from a cocoon by Emmanuelle Bourgue CC-BY-NC-ND Tillamook cheese factory by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner CC-BY-SA Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries by Wellcome Library CC-BY woodworking by conespider CC-BY-NC-ND delivery people by Garry Knight CC-BY checkout lane by Random...
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Christmas at war: 1914 - Gifts for injured soldiers
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1914 - Gifts for injured soldiers

...now has about 700 inmates. As many men as could well manage the journey have been sent home to be with their relatives at Christmas, but empty beds were quickly filled by fresh arrivals from the front. Since the war began the hospital has treated nearly nine thousand cases, of which 7,734 were wounded men from France. From: The Manchester Guardian, Christmas Eve 1914...
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