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The benefits of social media in academia
Education & Development

The benefits of social media in academia

...projects is another benefit of using social media. For some individuals, incorporating professional and academic use of social media into their work is very straightforward. For instance, sharing a document and commenting on it with others in a work or study team is possible in a few clicks or taps on a screen. Academic research projects can not only be shared or...
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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...projected to make wildfires even more frequent and intense. It is predicted that global wildfires will increase by 14 percent by 2030, 30 per cent by 2050, and 50 percent by the end of the century (UNEP, 2022). Wildfires have long-term effects that last well beyond their flames. They impact communities’ health, drain economic resources, contaminate water supplies, leave...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...projects. Nature-based citizen science is an activity in which people collect high-quality data for scientific use and environmental monitoring. Here Pocock and team tested people’s exposure to nature with both observation as well as citizen science, and confirmed that active engagement with the natural world positively affects people’s wellbeing. This is influenced...
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Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...management with STiP. The course complements the OpenLearn course Understanding systems thinking in practice and its context is described in the OpenLearn Systems Thinking hub. ...This free course provides a postgraduate level introduction to systems thinking in practice, or STiP. Systems thinking in practice itself has a long history and has developed from many different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Winning Resources and Support
Money & Business

Winning Resources and Support

...manage an organization and its members with regards to its individual factors. This material forms part of The Open University course B625 Winning resources and support... Winning Resources and Support A short introduction to this album. Legacies in Fundraising Theresa Dauncey from the Legacy Promotion Campaign explains the importance of legacies in fundraising and how...
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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...project about how a group of Arabic-English bilingual sojourners in the UK manage their use of two languages in their everyday interactions. Let me begin by explaining ‘code-switching’. Code-switching is the practice of going back and forth between two or more languages or dialects, and using them in the same sentence or conversation. This is something my bilingual...
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Why smart leaders allow a bit of football frenzy
Money & Business

Why smart leaders allow a bit of football frenzy

...project, or analysing industry trends. (Indeed, estimates suggest that employees watching the 2010 World Cup during working hours could have costed as much as US$10.4 billion in lost production time.) But there are multiple ways to make up for this by embracing the tournament. According to Gallup’s 2017 global survey, the State of the Global Workplace, only 15% of...
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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...managers that there is a ‘win-win’ – their business will be greener and more profitable, whether through cost savings or by being able to increase prices or sales volumes. But this is not the whole story. Research that we have conducted at the OU, and evidence from other published studies, indicates that the promise of a quick financial return is unlikely to achieve...
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