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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...necessarily there’s one best answer, but like I’ve broken my leg, I need to put a caste on it but you know there’s a couple of options and choosing between them is something that we can do. The Complex domain is really the one where the uncertainty lives. You know it’s the place where we don’t know what the answer is, we have to do as Dave describes: probe, sense and respond. You need to try something, check it out, see if ......
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...sand or the soil. So it’s a footprint. If you wish to understand more about your own carbon footprint, you can use The Open University’s Carbon Calculator on OpenLearn. The circular economy The circular economy is a framework to tackle global challenges including climate change that is based on three principles: Eliminate waste and pollution Circulate products and...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...cast a long shadow’ (1998, p. 16). [This is a poster containing the words ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’.] Figure 7 Adverse Childhood Experiences The next activity asks you to consider the experiences that children may be adversely affected by. Activity 5 Identifying adverse childhood experiences Timing: Allow about 15 minutes List the experiences that may occur in...
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...cast your mind back to Week 1, you saw the experiment showing the surprising amount of energy within the ethanol molecule. A very small amount was able to fire a homemade ‘rocket’ a considerable distance. The body needs to be able to safely break down ethanol without such a violent release of energy. The human body does this in the liver through enzymatic breakdown of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...casts an appreciative gaze over the area of your inquiry, from a range of perspectives. In doing so, you may have already begun to identify comments, images, stories, metaphors of interest. The following two activities will support you in thinking with these stories further to draw out the elements that feel most generative for thinking and doing differently. Activity 8...
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...casting the net a bit further with our recruitment. So we actually have an international player from South Korea as well as from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland, as well as some of the home counties. So we’re going a lot further with our recruitment. That’s also replicated in our women’s under-21s team where we have players from Belgium. We have players with...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...digital journey: 3 Making your mark online - [Image of a very clear shoe print in the sand.] Figure 2 Footprint in the sand In Week 3 you considered how you appear to others online (your digital profile), how you present yourself (your digital identity) and the traces of activity you leave online (your digital footprint). Digital identity and digital footprint are important for career purposes as many ......
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...sand and start talking about digital carbon footprints. There's been – I think we all realise there have had lots of interesting conversations, some really – I mean, over the last few decades, if you look back, there's been some amazing research already that's gone into understanding the carbon footprint and the energy consumption of our technological lifestyles and...