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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...project illustrates how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes. This is computing that works with your own creativity rather than replacing it –...
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...management, by day 6 of filming the project was already 5 days behind schedule! The thing is, neither boundless freedom nor boundless choice are conducive to creativity and innovation but can in fact have the opposite effect. In the absence of these constraints, Cimino and his team struggled to make effective decisions. So how then does an excess of choices impact on...
Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Managing systemic change (TU812) precursors to 2020 editions Making strategy with STiP (TB871) and Managing change with STiP (TB872). Arwen graduated with the MSc STiP in 2012. Arwen uses her qualifications and interest in systems thinking, social learning and gender to strengthen the way we present our research to make a difference in complex and contested situations....
The Environment
Education & Development

The Environment

...Manager...Find out more about The Open University's Environment courses I’m a Tutor Support Manager and I really like the multidisciplinary opportunities that the module offers. If I was to study this module, I would be interested in studying courses about the environment, because it is a challenging subject which can be seen from a number of different points of view...
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...projected cash flow by an appropriate discount rate to determine whether they offer an adequate return on the necessary investment. Financial investors look to those same commercial organisations to provide a return on their money. This section examines the importance of determining, or more often estimating, the required return on an investment...Estimating the cost of...
Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...management and computing to creative arts and languages. Created by our leading OU academics, and with many courses endorsed by leading industry partners, you can be confident in getting world-class learning and practical skills that you can immediately apply in the real world. Julia Pennacchia, who studied a short course with the OU, said: From the very start of the...
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...management in creating a successful customer experience...Understanding your customers: 1.1 Session learning outcomes - After studying this session, you should be able to: describe the importance of understanding customers to your professional and personal effectiveness explain marketing as a process whereby customers and suppliers exchange things of mutual value analyse...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...projected that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour could end up with fewer than 210. In particular, an analysis of the favourite in each of the seats traded on the Betfair market gave the Tories 366 seats and Labour 208. The Predictwise betting aggregation site gave the Conservatives an 81% chance of securing an overall majority of seats, in line with the large sums of money trading...