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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...Creative Archive’ Well again that was an innovation project, so for the Creative Archive, as I say, was a trial to see what the appetite for people’s interaction with the archive was. If you give them a body of archive content, how creative do they want to be with it? And it was a very early project, it didn’t have the participation levels that you do now, but it...
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Video 30 mins
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...writing (2020) three new vaccinations for COVID-19 are in the process of being formally approved following trials which have been completed at unprecedented speed. The urgency for a vaccination in this context created the unusual actions of pharmaceutical companies, in the face of government pressure, insisting that trial protocols are fully complied with to ensure...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...creatively and in new ways about possible solutions, especially around difficult and contested issues. In planning an intervention diagramming also serves three more specific operational tasks: brainstorming, in which all ideas, concepts, issues, stakes, stakeholders, etc. relevant to an intervention are noted; analysis, where the relationships and links between the items...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...creative ways to keep learning going. For many in low-income countries the solutions have focused on low-tech approaches (e.g. radio broadcast in local communities). A recent blog post by Power (2020) on Activating local study-groups for children’s learning—an equitable EdTech response? shows how local community leaders in Zimbabwe have used WhatsApp to recruit and...
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Article 10 mins
The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...creative accounting in order to get around this rule, for example by claiming that a service was being provided with the loan, and in fact Christian banking houses were completely uninhibited by the usury laws. Jews were useful because they were prepared to lend to the very poor. The programme tells us that in times of economic difficulty, as in the early 16th century,...
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Article 5 mins
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...Creative Commons attribution licence] To illustrate further, let’s think about an example: an opinion poll to find out people’s voting intentions in the next General Election. The pollsters will interview a representative sample of electors, and ask each of them which party they would vote for if there were an election tomorrow. For instance, in its regular poll in...
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Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...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 course, I was learning things...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring stereotypes in STEM
Education & Development

Exploring stereotypes in STEM

...creative ideas can come from anyone regardless of race, age, gender or sexuality. I believe that to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, and to solve them for the many, not just the few, we need everyone to be represented.’ Read more in the Institute of Civil Engineers article here. We asked AI to provide an image of a scientist. [AI-generated image of a male...
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