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The dot.com bubble
Society, Politics & Law

The dot.com bubble

...out the window. The dot.com crash Once the dot.com market started to crack, investors soon realised that these internet companies weren't really worth anything at all, but was this enough for them sell up before the bubble burst? Dot.com and the public damage When a bubbles bursts the immediate effect is damage to the public. But is there any longer lasting positive...
Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Politics

...out as part of the consultation process. GM: Science review panel The formation of the science review panel and its role in the decision to reject or accept GM crops. GM: the GM Nation review The GM nation review process: did it produce worthwhile results? GM conclusions The results of three consultations and how they have influenced the GM debate in the UK. Environmental...
Audio 1 hr 19 mins
Design is open
Science, Maths & Technology

Design is open

...out more about The Open University's Design courses and qualifications. Design is a dynamic profession. Today, design skills are needed not only in traditional design domains, but also across a variety of non-design domains and sectors, to help put creativity into action and address social and environmental challenges. In the UK alone, over 1.6 million people—about 1 in...
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...out shopping or went to work, there were legal dimensions to these actions. Even in our own homes, where it is generally thought we have the right to do as we please, we are affected by the law. We cannot behave in certain ways that affect our neighbours, such as playing music over a certain volume or letting trees grow high so that they become a nuisance. If our conduct...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...out of it, unrepealed corn-laws, three-and-sixpenny letters, a brawny and many-breeding pauperism, and other departed evils; but there were some pleasant things, too, which have also departed.Non omnia grandior ætas quæ fugiamus habet, says the wise goddess: you have not the best of it in all things, O youngsters! the elderly man has his enviable memories, and not the...
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...out tasks normally performed by a human. AI has infiltrated many different areas of sports. From sport commentary, recruitment and judging, to coaching and athlete training. Movement patterns in trampolining and gymnastics, for example, have become much faster and more complex, reflecting performer skill development. Such complexity makes coach assessment of performance...
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...out. Job-task analysis: This is where the analysis moves to individual jobs and roles to assess the gap between current and desired skills and capabilities. Examining job descriptions and specifications provides the basis of decisions about any gaps in capability levels. There is an important link between this analysis and any business process reengineering (BPR) work...
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...burn out pursuing something late that you should have attended to early. TUNA we came up-- my co-author, Angela Wilkinson, who's now head of the World Energy Council, she was here at Oxford at the time. She and I came up with the acronym TUNA, for Turbulent, Unpredictably Uncertain, Novel, and Ambiguous conditions because we found that to be better in social science...