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The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...economic justification for rebuilding - There are two responses that could be made on behalf of the French government. The first focuses on the economic benefits of conserving and restoring heritage. The second, which you will read about in the next section, focuses on ‘heritage values’. This first response is fairly simple and can be used as a reply to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...economic and social benefits to you and the economy. It provides you with intermediate and advanced conceptual and practical learning in entrepreneurship and innovation in different contexts...Sustainable innovations in enterprises: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define sustainable innovation analyse sustainable innovations within a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...economics and sport science...You will learn about algorithms and abstraction in this free course, Introduction to computational thinking, and encounter some applications of computational thinking in various disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to economics and sport science....Introduction to computational thinking: Introduction - One can major [i.e. graduate]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...economic environment, the political environment, for example – as well as the 'natural environment'. What we mean by these usages is the context in which we live and work, which both shapes and influences us and on which we, in turn, have an effect. They are all suitable topics for study, but this course is mainly concerned with what is often termed the natural...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

Economics depends, in a large part, on individuals making and behaving in a rational way. We might be wrong about that, warns Nick Hanley...[Arrows pointing in various directions] Make a choice... wisely? For years, economists and psychologists have argued about whether the standard model that economists use to explain how people make decisions is correct. It says that...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand narratives, but as practices through which worlds are enacted. This is a reaction to, and qualified rejection of, that research which associates particular...
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Article 5 mins
British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...economic approach known as “stated preference discrete choice experiments” to measure how the British public value different components of a Brexit deal. This is more rigorous than traditional polling, and involved interviews with 917 people, drawn from those who participated in the British Social Attitudes survey. We asked people to make choices, and trade-offs,...
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What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...for economic and other systemic disruption in the future. During the creation of this hub, we have had interest from leaders in industry keen to know what we are doing; therefore, the hub is also a place for initiating conversations and potential future collaborations and partnerships. To contact our team of psychologists, please email us at FeedbackAPH@open.ac.uk...
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Article 10 mins