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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...works through price and innovation, and how different schools of thought theorise about their importance. You will also learn that firms can engage in anticompetitive behaviour and use their competitive advantage to deter competition, and how regulators work to impede this behaviour. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD320: Doing economics:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...working definitions, as you study this course. In Activity 1, you will examine your existing ideas about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship and compare your views with those of existing organisations. The terms sustainable and sustainably are used in a variety of ways. Sustainable means being able to be used without being destroyed. Sustainability means...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...working to ensure this curriculum remains relevant for the twenty-first century. It is aimed at parents, faith and community group members and all others who might be interested in the purpose and content of religious education in schools...Religious Education is a statutory requirement for all school children in England. This course explores how the teaching and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...working among the middle classes used laboratory tests to help their diagnosis. Similarly, the development and marketing of small ‘kits’ containing all the equipment necessary to perform simple analyses of blood and urine suggests that some general practitioners applied to their practice the skills learned in the medical-school laboratory. Research has suggested that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...work sits alongside what the artist intended and what official culture designates in a discursive and often contested relationship. So in addition to the objects and practices of heritage themselves, we also need to be mindful of varying ‘perspectives’, or subject positions on heritage. The historian and geographer David Lowenthal has written extensively on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...worked on the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis. We ran an exhibition with the Migration Museum, a theatre project with ActReal and recorded some of the activities with illustrations by Laura Sorvala. The aim of the exhibition was to represent the current migration crisis without being voyeuristic, sensationalising the experience or using it to make fairly easy...
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Tricky Topics in Nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tricky Topics in Nursing

...work or study. 3. Observe: Observe a registered healthcare professional performing the procedure on a real patient. Compare your findings with theirs if appropriate. 4. Read: Proctor, J. and Rickards, E. (2020) How to perform chest auscultation and interpret the findings. Nursing Times; Vol:116(1), pp.23-26. Intramuscular injection An intramuscular injection delivers...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...working with an industry to demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness. Scaling up the process depends on factors such as the existence of an efficient supply chain of waste as well as viable business models “including the availability of capital, expected return and the policy environment,” says Chattopadhyay. Others are less optimistic. “Physical crushing...
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