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Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...work and other areas of life. Conclusion Similarly, the greater the deviation from a healthy, less stressed frame of mind, the more difficult it becomes to correct it (through drugs, relaxation, change in lifestyle, etc). The danger of overcompensating in the other direction also increases through, for example, dependence on anti-depressant drugs or rash changes in other...
How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...working on a ‘plan of action’ to ‘tackle the wrongs of racism, bias and discrimination wherever they are found in policing’ (https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/update-on-the-plan-of-action-for-inclusion-and-race-equality-in-policing). The plan of action is forthcoming in 2021. References Macpherson, W. (1999) The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Report of an Inquiry by...
Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo storybooks. Stories are conveyed through the layered images within, and connections between, individual photographs. In the photograph below, four-year-old Sasha communicates visually and emotionally the close...
Renewable Energy and the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Renewable Energy and the UK

...work to do to ensure the targets are met. Managing energy supply from variable renewables to ensure it meets demand is one of the key challenges in a transition to a renewable future. Because wind and solar power output is variable, new ways of balancing supply and demand are being developed. These involve a mixture of demand management, storage, backup from conventional...
Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...working to preserve the gorillas' natural habitat and develop quality of life for the locals. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: Journeys Through a Changing World... Environment: journeys through a changing world A short introduction to this album Conservation for Whom? How locals and gorillas can inhabit the forest in harmony. Conservationists...
Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...works. These materials form part of the Open University free courses Basic Science: Understanding Experiments and Basic Science: Understanding Numbers available from OpenLearn. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses... How to present your results A graph is a great way of telling a story with numbers but the same data can be presented using different ways. So how do...
Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...work during the fruit harvest. Protecting the border The river border patrol on duty. Second line of defence An interview with Mexican detainee at a border checkpoint. Hazardous crossing A presbyterian minister explains how migrants get channelled to cross at the most dangerous border points by aggressive policies. The death toll Why the death toll at the border is large....
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...working and teaching in accounting and finance has forced him to a fundamental reappraisal of the idea that businesses’ objective is to maximise shareholder wealth. The case for shareholder wealth Alan Shipman of The Open University Economics Department recalls the origins and optimistic expectations of the shareholder value ‘revolution’, inspired by economic ideas...