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Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works
Education & Development

Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works

...businesses create financial returns while ensuring positive social or environmental outcomes. Without standardisation, there are too many ways to assess EdTech. A review commissioned by the UK government of evaluation criteria and standards for EdTech analysed 74 methods for assessing their quality. Similarly, I carried out a research study with colleagues on available...
Sara Kay Aloe
Education & Development

Sara Kay Aloe

...business trips, OpenLearn became her main source of entertainment: ‘I just really enjoy learning new things, and it turns out that personal development can also be a hobby.’ Working in IT recruitment, the pandemic had a big impact and Sara was unfortunate enough to lose her job, ‘…but OpenLearn helped me get through those awful lockdowns by keeping me busy,’ she...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...business you run, or from your own pocket. Whoever it is, the money must be found, and this represents the financial resource input...Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!: 2.3 Resources and outputs - As for outputs, we have already identified the end product or service as one key output. We have also recognised that effective processes lead to the...
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...business, pecking at food – I’ve yet to see one raise it’s mouth and drown. And they have feelings. My daughter and I once watched as 4 turkeys stood around a comrade who’d just been run over, clearly distraught. None left, even as cars went by. I saw a family of 7 perched on a branch in size order, crapping in unison. And one early morning I turned a corner and...
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...money but it would cost more than money if we destroyed or changed a natural ecosystem. [A hydrothermal landscape: a valley, ringed by low hills, covered in vegetation, with rocks and steam vents across the surface]Figure 3: Sampling VOCs from hydrothermal vents – a recent Open University field trip to Iceland under a Europlanet grant. Copyright: Claire Batty...
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...business and its processes; also, models are platform-independent and hence decoupled from specific technology. Well defined syntax (how models should be defined) and semantics (how they should be interpreted) allow code to be derived from models through transformations and a suite of automated tools are being developed to support the approach. With model-driven...
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...business processes. Importantly innovations can be difficult to classify in narrow innovation terms and types and can involve combinations of goods, services and/or processes (OECD/Eurostat 2018). You will note how the OECD/Eurostat (2018) definition emphasises novelty and significant difference. This is supported by others, notably Tidd and Bessant (2009)...Introducing...
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Money for Young Adults, with the wonderful Bobby Seagull from University Challenge. We’ve partnered with some well-known companies to deliver top-notch learning such as CISCO in our Internet of Everything free course and Money Saving Expert in MSE's Academy of Money. In the wake of heightened concerns over black lives, after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, and in...