2,616 search results
Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community
Education & Development

Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community

...project’s future...When I started my job at The Open University, I was intrigued by the various staff networks available. There seemed to exist these autonomous, staff-led spaces where individuals with shared experiences could meet to support, motivate, listen to, and be heard by each other. The network for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff appealed to me, and after...
View article Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community
Article 5 mins
Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Society, Politics & Law

Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry

...manager at OroVerde, the Tropical Forest Foundation, who shared their research and experience on forest and landscape restoration in Mexico and Guatemala. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the seminar, Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry. Transcript Learning outcomes Learn about the problems of land degradation and the benefits...
View video Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Video 5 mins
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...projects you have to do. So I've done retail banking, investment banking, asset management, hedge funds, wealth managers. I didn't do insurance because insurance regulation is very, very different. So that skill set doesn't really translate very well. But across the, what we call, the capital markets, that being investment banks, and the retail markets being your high...
View course Understanding organisational value
Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...project management. Then I went to join Rolls Royce, and in particular I was working in the stress office, which was involved in the design of gas turbine rotating components. And I was exposed to the challenges of high technology in terms of materials and operational performance of safety-critical components in aero engines – for example, looking at the failure of...
View course Personal development planning for engineering
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Project Based Learning and Evaluation to future and current educators and teachers. From 1991 he has designed and led online programs on personal, group and organizational development. He worked in recruitment, compensation, and organization structuring for the civilian workforce of the US Army before moving to a business career in Human Resources, Issue Management and...
View audio Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Audio 15 mins
'As rich as Croesus'
History & The Arts

'As rich as Croesus'

...project and other reliable sources, such as the BBC, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help you to explore where the saying ‘as rich as Croesus’ came from and to provide an opportunity for you to understand how the text of Herodotus can be compared with the archaeological record. [Croesus gold coin] Gold coin of Croesus, from the Metropolitan Museum of...
View activity 'As rich as Croesus'
Activity 5 mins
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...project with a unity of purpose. In their view, cooperation in international organisations should follow the utilitarian premise of amplifying national goals rather than surrendering sovereignty and building a post-modern entity that ends the primacy of the state in world politics. A few years later, the euro crisis also fostered divisions across the EU along pragmatic...
View article Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Article 10 mins
Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...introduction to the hub. [Welcome to The OU Education Conference]Download video transcript CPD recognition for conference participants If you took part in the conference and/or are using this hub as part of your professional learning or CPD, you can use our FREE online course, Professional Learning into Action on OpenLearn Create to gain recognition and demonstrate the...
View article Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Article 5 mins