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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...Open University so that its students can be fairly sure of the quality of their sources. This is known as the PROMPT checklist, and is shown in the video below. NARRATOR: The PROMPT checklist is a technique to help you evaluate the quality of information that you find online. P is for presentation and refers to the appearance of the website and how clearly the information...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...Open Univeristy along with Systems Thinking. Find out more about systems thinking in practice with these podcasts and videos. ...What is STiP@50? STiP@50 celebrates the unique coupling, in 1971, between the provision of Supported Open and Distance Learning as developed at the OU since 1969, with tertiary level teaching of systems thinking in the UK and beyond. 2021 marked...
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Video 10 mins
About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...Open University, and led by Professor Joe Smith. The project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 7 decades, with two central aims. The first is to think through the potential of these archives as a digital resource that will be attractive across many areas, from teaching and learning to amateur media production and...
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Article 5 mins
Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...Open University were invited to talk about an exciting partnership between their two institutions...Transcript At this early stage of a new partnership between The Open University UK and Uganda’s Makerere University, it helps to draw on a few reflections from history and to envision the future of a potentially ground-breaking partnership. A key consideration is the...
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Video 10 mins
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Open University course B293 Financial accounting in context. Transcript...Companies and financial accounting: Introduction - Companies and financial accounting, serves as an introduction to the understanding of the legal characteristics of limited companies and how the ways in which they are financed impact on their financial reporting and role in society. Session 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...open up?...Successfully pitching a story to a science editor requires a wide range of skills, from researching their outlet to communicating with them in a professional way. In this practical guide, we have compiled advice from six different science editors with extensive experience in commissioning pieces for a number of different outlets including Science, BBC Focus...
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Article 5 mins
Witnesses and Evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Witnesses and Evidence

...Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of the Times, discuss whether jurors and expert witnesses are suited to roles they undertake... Witnesses and Evidence Professor Gary Slapper of The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times discuss how well jurors and expert witnesses are suited to the tasks they perform....
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Audio 13 mins
The abolition of capital punishment
Society, Politics & Law

The abolition of capital punishment

...Open University, Professor Barbara Hudson, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central Lancashire, and Dr. Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, explore some of the fundamental issues underpinning our attitudes to this most severe of punishments. The discussion is chaired by...
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Audio 26 mins