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How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with real others, quasi-dialogues with invisible others, and...
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Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former works; the latter exploits workers, profiting from their labour. But even if this is still the big picture, the nature of work, and who does it—women, men, young or old—has certainly changed since Marx’s time. We'd like...
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Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...analysis of your choices and a map of how your opinions compare to different philosophers through the ages. Are you ready to turn the first page? If so, select the image below to open the book... [Black and white illustration of a castle surrounded by trees with a tower in the centre. Dot like dashes create a sea around the island the castle is on top of.] Open the book...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...analysis and communication – as well as an open-mindedness to different disciplines and research methods. In the latter case, my previous life as an OU student (in the early 2000s), on the Social Sciences programme, was formative – I picked up a lot about sociological approaches and ideas, some of which I still use today in my research. 2. What is your specialist area...
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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...analysis determines to some extent the amount of data that needs to be collected, the amount of data collected in qualitative methods is based on the principle of reaching a saturation point – the point at which no new information is obtained when further data are collected. The interviews by Mofokeng and van der Wath (2017) centred on one question, ‘What are your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...data, and organising and representing information in different ways finding the mean, median and range of a group of numbers. Finding the mean from grouped data using data to assess the likelihood of an outcome and expressing this in different forms working with area, perimeter and volume, scale drawings and plans...Session 4: Shape and space: 8 Next steps - Take your...
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Free course 48 hrs
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...Analysis, I’ve made a start by searching the world’s languages for words relating to love that don’t exist in English. Most of us use the word love fairly liberally. I use it for the deep ardour, care and respect I have for my wife. But I will also call upon it to describe the unshakeable bonds of kinship and history I share with my family, and the connections and...
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What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...data. Most recently, in the wake of the March attack at Westminster, Amber Rudd, the UK home secretary, said it was unacceptable that the government couldn’t read the encrypted messages of suspected terrorists. [The Conversation] The main argument behind this request is that access to messages will allow authorities to thwart future terror attacks. On the other hand,...
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