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Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...concepts; to internalise knowledge and ideas, ‘making them my own’; (c) builds on my ability to analyse and apply new ideas; (d) allows me to obtain feedback from my tutor and advice on how to improve; (e) helps pull the course together and enables me to check out my progress. Discussion Assignments are not just about producing something to please your tutor and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...concept of the political to at least lay claim to political possibility, even if we are not sure how and across which social and technological registers such a politics of anonymity can be articulated. Here, the question of anonymity becomes intimately intertwined with the question of how we approach the transformation of agency within machinic assemblages, of technical...
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Article 15 mins
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...concept, some broad way of understanding parts of the world that are all connected to each other. The discipline of systems thinking, on which many of the ideas in the course rest, is concerned with understanding systems and their nature. A short definition of a system, within the tradition of systems thinking that has long been used at the Open University, is ‘a set of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other. So you have the eye, and then you drop in the concepts. And that whole thing is two languages both working at the same time. So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a simple question with a really simple answer....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...concepts we might use and then design a solution and test it before we put it in place? We seldom see this in healthcare, and that’s partly driven by culture and lack of training, but partly by lack of time.” Dixon-Woods agrees that healthcare can learn much from how engineers approach problems. “Medical science tends to prioritise trials and particular types of...
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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

...concept of ‘better regulation’ which entailed, notably, a policy shift away from formal law enforcement. The effects of this initiative have been staggering. Between 2003/04 and 2014/15: Food hygiene and food standards inspections fell by 15% and 35% respectively, while there were 35% fewer food prosecutions. In relation to occupational health and safety, inspections...
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Article 5 mins
Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution

...concept is successful because the material is in compression, exploiting the greatest strength of the iron. The same principle had been used since at least Roman times in stone bridges. The design was imitated elsewhere with some success, both in Britain and abroad, and cast iron was also used widely in the early Victorian period in buildings. It culminated in the world...
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Article 10 mins
The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...concept has grown into a much more sophisticated view of supply chain coordination. The whole supply chain has to follow the volume and short-run mix variation if excess work-in-progress, pipeline stocks and waste are to be avoided. The problem is further compounded by supply chain dynamics that create instability if demand uncertainty and variation are not managed with a...
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Article 10 mins