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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Health Promotion, presented her work on the ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ movement and current critiques. Jenny outlined the history and context of her work and the distinction between Decolonising the Curriculum and an inclusive curriculum, along with the need to address the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students’ awarding gap. Jenny also explained what the...
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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...public hospital Capital Labour a. Capital b. Labour The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1e here (e) Income received as an estate agent Capital Labour a. Capital b. Labour The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1f here (f) Annual pay-out: you pay yourself as the owner of a real estate agency Capital Labour a. Capital b. Labour The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...public place as a commemoration of a famous victory and stimulus to Florentine patriotism. In fact, paintings of comparable secular subjects had been produced over a century earlier for precisely these motives, so the subject matter in itself does not signify a fundamental innovation. The painter Simone Martini contributed to a series of wall paintings of Sienese castles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...health centre to illustrate this point. In this example, the health centre uses a computerised booking system and the patient may phone or visit the health centre to make an appointment. Therefore, the system includes a patient, a receptionist, a doctor, and a computerised booking system. The example shown in Figure 1 shows how this system could be represented using a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton...
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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the changing world that brings many challenges. Successful leadership requires you to reconsider what it means to lead in turbulent and precarious times. In this short course you will have the opportunity to understand and explain how leadership changes in accordance to the needs of turbulent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...health, and well-being, and our relationships with others and the planet and our work – is urgently and globally political.’ Addressing the critics Critics of autoethnography often raise concerns about rigour and subjectivity. They ask: how can research grounded in personal experience be objective? How can it be generalisable? These questions reflect traditional ideas...
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The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...public services such as health care. You also considered the case of Monte Cassino in the Second World War, where Allied forces decided to destroy a historic abbey in an attempt to end a particularly bloody battle. Dilemmas such as these, which pit human beings against heritage, are difficult to navigate. Some people believe that the defence of heritage could potentially...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs