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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century, while the UK’s Institute for Apprenticeships has approved a standard for a Systems Thinking Practitioner who ‘supports decision-makers in strategic and leadership roles to understand and address complex and sometimes even ‘wicked’ problems through provision of expert systemic analysis, advice...
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...data are extremely easy to copy and distribute – which is sometimes beneficial, since this enlarges the community of practice for that software or information, and the community within which data can be exchanged. One way to ensure excludability is to use technical measures, like encryption and licence codes, along with the internet to check that people are properly...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is ‘woman’s work’?
Money & Business

What is ‘woman’s work’?

...analysis will focus on understanding whether the perceptions of work–family interface are constructed as conflicts and/or whether they are also viewed as opportunities for professional and personal enrichment. In exploring these experiences of work–family interface the chapter will also discuss the specific factors that affect the balance between work and life. Read...
Could you be a code breaker?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could you be a code breaker?

...analysis). Earn stars for each challenge, and learn about code-breaking through the ages by playing our interactive ‘Could you be a code breaker?’ [Front image capture for the game 'CODE BREAK'] Click on the image above to start playing CODE BREAK. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free...
Molecular Science: Spectrometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Molecular Science: Spectrometry

...and mass spectrometry. This material is taken from The Open University course S205 The molecular world... Molecular Science: Spectrometry A short introduction to this album. Infra-red Spectrometry Preparing samples for infra-red spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Preparing samples for 1H and 13C nmr spectroscopy Mass Spectrometry Analysis by mass spectrometry...
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...data. The value of information springs from the ways it is interpreted and applied to make products – like Coca-Cola – and to provide services – like Facebook does for its advertisers. As we have seen, and supported by academic writers such as Itami and Roehl (1987), the true value of an organisation is in the information it uses and creates. Activity 3: You and...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...data and controlled by investment management corporations. Politics moved away from the idea of making society better, and instead became about the prediction and management of risk. Transcript The political narrative, hollowed out by simplification and often intentionally contradiction, took on a surreal aspect. As Curtis is fond of saying, ‘nothing quite made sense...
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

...data. It was a co-constructed reality. We were engaged in a research method called collective autoethnography, though we were only just beginning to name it as such. [Woman holding a phone while speaking in a voice note] What Is Collective Autoethnography? Autoethnography (AE) is an approach to qualitative inquiry in which a researcher recounts a story of their own...