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World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...concept of participatory development, featuring Robert Chambers. Does empowerment disempower? Empowerment may lead to the imposition of outside ideas on developing communities. Self interest or altruism Do outside parties have altruistic motives, or are they moved only by self interest? Whose knowledge counts? The moral dilemmas of using participatory methods, and how it...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Creative Writing
History & The Arts

Creative Writing

...concept to final drafts and productions. Writing for stage, print, television and radio is discussed in engaging and articulate detail. This material forms part of The Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing... Tanika Gupta on Voice Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. Helen...
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Audio 2 hrs 28 mins
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...conceptions of managing as an activity, and how systems thinking and practice benefit from learning by experience...Learning, thinking and doing: 1 Learning to learn - This course is about developing your effectiveness as a learner. For example, there are activities which invite you to apply theories to practice and also to criticise theories in the light of practical...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...concepts and skills of bookkeeping and accounting in four weeks. To start with you will learn about the fundamental difference between bookkeeping and accounting. In Week 1 you will also learn how the purpose of management accounting differs from that of financial accounting. In Week 2 you will gain some practical skills in numeracy, including learning about rearranging...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...concept of appreciative systems to describe human activity. He recognized that appreciation of systems requires the participation of not only the observer, but also that of the subject. World views and systems Video Text We can't help, I think, thinking chiefly when we think of Systems of the kind of Systems that most concern us, whether they be technological or...
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Video 10 mins
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...concepts of STiP, and Part 2 Understanding approaches to STiP. The two parts of this course complement each other by way of introducing elements of systems thinking in practice; with understanding threshold concepts of STiP coupled with understanding principles of practice associated with conceptual tools from five resilient approaches to STiP. The course complements the...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...concept of technical virginity still focuses on whether there has been vaginal penetration by a penis. And surgical reconstructions are still performed, for example in Iran, to create a “membrane” that can tear or even produce some red dye. Looking back through European history, was the hymen always the definitive mark of virginity? A 14th-century writer, commenting...
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Article 10 mins
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...conception that people will use work to make up for dissatisfaction at home and vice-versa. Here, a successful career is thought to distract and to a degree replace the desire for a happy life. This is particularly the case, it is thought, for relationships and jobs, where an unfulfilling partnership can lead one to spend more time at work while, similarly, a frustrating...
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Article 5 mins