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Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...OU), hosted by innovation advisor and engineer, Josh Valman. The four sessions look at the what intrapreneurs are and how the right culture can be created to allow them to solve problems in the same fashion as an entrepreneur and start-ups. We take a closer look at digital/AI and sustainability and learn how intrapreneurs could help you to solve difficult challenges in...
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Video 4 hrs
Dr Anthony Gunter on representing modern Britain, the silent majority and change
Education & Development

Dr Anthony Gunter on representing modern Britain, the silent majority and change

...OU has some way to go to be in a position to represent modern Britain and suggests changes that could be made...Representing Modern Britain: In this short video Anthony observes that the OU has some way to go to be in a position to represent modern Britain Transcript The silent Majority: In this video Anthony reflects on a Black History Month event, which was well...
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Video 10 mins
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...students along but not to become the one they rely upon. [SCREEN TEXT]: Creating a learning community DR RICHARD MOBBS: The best way of learning is to actually form a community to share information. LUBNA ALAM: now some students are shy, for example international students, non-English speaking background students, they're shy to speak up in face-to-face ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Wellbeing and mental health collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing and mental health collection

...students studying at Higher or Further Education level. Staff in the Higher and Further Education sector can also use the resources to improve their knowledge of positive health behaviours, building their capacity to support students and supporting Continuing Professional Development. Importantly, the collection was developed using students’ voices. Students across...
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Article 10 mins
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...OU's Mike Richards introduces a short obituary by John's friend, Cory Doctorow...[John Perry Barlow] Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. - A Declaration...
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Article 10 mins
At a crossroads: navigating work and/or family alongside study
Health, Sports & Psychology

At a crossroads: navigating work and/or family alongside study

...students*, our evidence-informed tips and advice are here to help...* Research with students. Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [A lady sitting down in cafe working on a laptop.] Click on the image above, or click here to start your interactive experience. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser....
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Activity 20 mins
Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...student and wrote my thesis on George Hibbert, a proslavery West India merchant and art, book and botany collector. This research eventually became my first monograph The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World (MUP, 2020). 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? The history, legacies and representation of slavery...
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Article 5 mins
Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection
Society, Politics & Law

Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection

...OU's Steve Tombs, the result is a loss of specialist expertise, a reduction in prosecutions - and risks to public health...[The Sonae Factory in Knowsley] The now-closed Sonae chipboard factory in Knowsley, Merseyside It’s going to come to the point where it’s going to affect the residents, the local population, in many ways we are at that point now, public health and...
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Article 5 mins