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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...learning curve for how we voice these issues in business practice. The disconnect between the natural environment has created a reality where we tend to value economic purpose far more than the ecological functions that enable us to live and thrive. Power, urgency, legitimacy: the stakeholder’s legacy According to the Carbon Majors Report (2017), the highest...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...learn to do, rather than something you simply absorb. Approaching it in that way can make it easier to engage with the subject at university level, when you are asked to begin producing history rather than just consuming it. 11. What are you planning to work on next? One day I will get around to looking at election literature in eighteenth-century Ireland! For now, I...
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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...learning resources including print materials, videos, software and slide packs. Launched in 1995/96, this OU Renewable Energy Pack changed the game and transformed renewable energy education in colleges and universities both in the UK and overseas. It was well received and highly praised and won two 1995 EuroSolar Prize Awards. [EuroSolar 1995 awards clipping from Open...
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Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks

...learning of decommissioning, and this relates to all of the sides to the conflict, is that you cannot put beyond use the hell, and the fears and the hurts of those years of war. There will always be guns. Just in case. Believing in Peace is a very long process. Months earlier in June 2009, I had broken the story of UVF/Red Hand Commando decommissioning before the...
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...learned responses that David Park described in his 2008 novel ‘The Truth Commissioner’. And this is why I argue for an international report on the conflict years; written with pens free of emotional ink. We are not capable of doing this ourselves and, as far back as 2008, we should have realised this when four victims commissioners had to be appointed instead of one....
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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage. Try a FREE course Additional support Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages Take it further with The Open University...
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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...Migrants share pandemic experiences in poems, songs, music, photos, short videos, written testimonies, diaries, artworks and blogs. Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open University in Wales] Open Talks is a video series where Open University academics share their expertise and passion on a subject or issue of their choice. Watch more from Open Talks...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...learn the statistical relationships between words in the training set. In the case of ChatGPT, this eventually amounted to some 175 billion relationships derived from 45 terabytes of text. Given the enormous volumes of data being processed, most of this training process is completely automated; running for months on giant clusters of computers consuming colossal amounts...
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