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Facilitating creative thinking
Money & Business

Facilitating creative thinking

...work, using different processes and techniques. This material forms part of The Open University course B822, Creativity, innovation and change... Facilitating creative thinking An introduction to this album Warming up The facilitators focus on preparing the group for the creative problem-solving session. Exploring the problem What’s really behind the problem, and how...
Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees

...working in a particular field and that they offer a particular focus of knowledge. When we consider interdisciplinary learning (and teaching), we are working across boundaries of knowledge and creating new knowledge from various sources. However, many of our traditional modern academic disciplines are newly created themselves. For example, when I started working, I was...
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...work, which draws in the viewer and opens up a very different way of relating to the subject. Oftentimes in media representations we see refugees during their journeys in an extremely vulnerable situation, we see their suffering and they are often fixed to a subject position as ‘victim’. This evokes a one-way gaze from ‘us’ (who are not – at this moment –...
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...work of others. It helps you determine the knowledge gaps and understand your knowledge needs. These in turn guide your research methodology. Research methodology – designing the research methodology to collect the evidence required to meet your knowledge needs. In law you may choose to draw upon one or more of the following methods: doctrinal, socio-legal, comparative,...
What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...working lives is ever growing. Understanding how people shape technology and how technology shapes people's interactions with each other and the natural world is important - not only for those who research, develop and implement new technologies, but also for all those people and organisations that have to use those technologies in their working and personal lives....
Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...work which led to the energy rating of all buildings. Watch a film which explores what happened when Jake of The Open University and an architect of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation recognised the dangers of increased energy on the climate. Their energy efficiency measures are now part of everyday life and better known as the Energy Performance Certificate...
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...work for different people and at different times. I’ve sometimes described it as ‘anti-self-help’ because it doesn’t locate our problems in us as individuals, and its starting point is a gentle criticism of mainstream self-help. But how is the project of producing self-help a research project, and what methods does it use? Actually my project weaves together...
Resources for educators
Education & Development

Resources for educators

Design your own CPD with these free resources from The Open University, created for teachers and teaching assistants working across the UK.