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Search Engines of the Future: The Pharos project
Science, Maths & Technology

Search Engines of the Future: The Pharos project

...businesses today. The Open University is one of fifteen European partners in The Pharos project which aims to advance audio-visual search using an integrated search platform paradigm... Future technologies: The Pharos project This track demonstrates some of the ways in which the Pharos project is advancing audiovisual search engines, we take a closer look at photo...
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Video 7 mins
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...business owner, or currently without paid work. However, these challenges also present opportunities to reflect, reset priorities, and find new and meaningful ways forward. The changing workplace Even before the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020/21, workplaces were already undergoing continuous change. Gone are the days when school leavers would join a workplace for a lifetime...
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Article 10 mins
60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage

...comparative advantage – and it has persuaded many countries to sign up to free-trade agreements, but unfortunately, it can take a long time for countries to trade their way to prosperity. And because it‘s now much easier to move to where the money is – it’s increasingly not only goods that cross borders, but people - which has somewhat uprooted Ricardo’s theory....
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Video 5 mins
National Storytelling Week
History & The Arts

National Storytelling Week

...money? Then try our Start Writing Fiction short course. Taken from an Open University module, you'll gain fantastic skills in order to pen your masterpiece. Want to be the next poet laureate? Fancy crafting a beautiful sonnet or a snappy haiku? Learn more about poetic techniques with these free materials. Don't like writing? Perform your tales Do you prefer the vintage...
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Article 5 mins
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...Business data analytics and decision making....Data analysis: hypothesis testing: Introduction - This course covers the fundamental principles of developing hypotheses. You will learn to distinguish between hypotheses that are directional and non-directional. This knowledge is crucial for the statistical testing that you will learn to implement. You will also explore...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Supreme streets: an adventure into employee-ownership
Money & Business

Supreme streets: an adventure into employee-ownership

...associated with The Open University's Business and Management courses and qualifications. [Supreme Streets - start] Select the image above to begin your adventure into employee-ownership or click here. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Activity 15 mins
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...money, may cost labour, may cost taxes and those sort of things and if the electorate doesn’t understand how important that is they won’t back those policies. And so a realisation that the protection of the natural world is crucial to humanity is very, very important. The whole range of natural history is important and it has to be a wide range, we have to look at it...
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Video 40 mins
A brief history of advertising
Money & Business

A brief history of advertising

...Business and Management courses In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury. But advertising goes back much earlier than Caxton’s days; almost certainly it emerged alongside trading. From simply displaying ones wares outside, to painting murals to entice customers, the roots of advertising...
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Article 5 mins