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Does your personality influence your career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does your personality influence your career?

...personality. Whether they enjoy their job or not, again, can be dependent on the match between their personality and the job they’re doing. And then, of course, to get into an occupation you need to be recruited, and employers are looking to recruit people with particular personality types for particular jobs. There’s all sorts of ways in which those two overlap....
About the Design Hub
Science, Maths & Technology

About the Design Hub

...experiences. In addition, the Design Hub draws in content relevant to design from different subject areas in OpenLearn as well as linking to learning support materials, such as general study skills and course information. Interested in the background graphic on this page? Learn more about the mathematical pattern behind this kind of design here. Come in and take a look....
Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...course in Environmental Management and Technology, qualifiying with first class honours in 2019. He started postgraduate study towards a Masters in Systems Thinking in Practice in 2020 and completed the first module, Managing change with STiP (TB872) and enrolled in a second module, T891, Making Environmental Decisions, which started in November 2021. Paul describes...
Hospital: The cost of treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: The cost of treatment

...only available on the NHS once she has had three courses of chemotherapy, and she is only just about to start her second. So she is attempting to crowdfund the £60,000 needed to buy the drug herself. Going private Mary is in hospital for a lump on her lung that is cancerous and is having it removed. Rex discusses the difference between the Private services and the NHS....
Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...course S396 Ecosystems... Ecosystems: living communities A short introduction to this album What is an ecosystem? How the definition of an ecosystem as "a living system of energy transfer" arose The energy cycle Understanding the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity affects the...
Badminton: Fitness and Training
Health, Sports & Psychology

Badminton: Fitness and Training

...course E217 Sport and conditioning science into practice... Fitness Demands of Badminton What is required in order to train an athlete to a particular fitness level? This video looks at the physical demands of playing badminton. Resistance Training A look at the various types of weights exercises used to develop the specific muscles needed in badminton. Plyometrics How...
Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...model reflects reality, by comparing the model's predictions against real-world data. This material forms part of The Open University course S396 Ecosystems... Ecosystems: modelling the Earth A short introduction to this album. Using a model How models can be used to predict the Earth's climate patterns. The acid test The limitations of models; how to measure model error....
Energy efficiency: hospitals
Nature & Environment

Energy efficiency: hospitals

...course T206 Energy for a sustainable future... Energy efficiency: hospitals A short introduction to this album The hospital as a transport hub How hospitals face unique organisational challenges as generators of lots of traffic. Hospital transport strategies Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital. Making hospital transport eco-friendly An Austrian...