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Systems explained by Peter Checkland
Money & Business

Systems explained by Peter Checkland

...interactions between peoples have increased, traditional ways of operating have no longer sufficed. Through no clearly discernible reasons, projects overran budgets, communications systems between people broke down, and it became increasingly obvious that the human factor was playing a large role in these problems. Many of the early systems thinking methodologies did not...
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Audio 15 mins
Cider: The new politics of food
Society, Politics & Law

Cider: The new politics of food

...social problems such as binge drinking, how can a small artisan cider maker take cider away from the streets and back onto the restaurant table? The humble apple - and cider, one of it's most pleasurable products lie at the heart of a new politics of food activism while the decline of the British apple orchard reveals a much wider significance to our understanding of...
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Video 11 mins
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...social responsibility and growing demands for diversity. Moreover, it connects up to rising questions over whether a consumer service mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public rather than the private good. A crucial part of any business is to treat its customers right. Importantly this means all its...
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Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...social and psychological impacts and investigate the extent to which care environments are enabling or disabling. The album also contains a fictional case study which explores some of the issues facing people who are carers in their own homes. To complete the album, Joanna Bornat and Jan Walmsley of The Open University's Faculty of Health and Social Care explain why some...
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Audio 2 hrs 14 mins
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...Social Attitudes Survey (2016) has found that whilst overall the UK has become more positive in its views towards migration, this hides the fact that opinion is also starkly divided. This feeds into the common recent assertion that rather than left or right, the new divide in our politics is divided between ‘open’ versus ‘closed.’ However, whilst divisions in...
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Article 15 mins
OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds-Talk: What does Brexit tell us about Britain?

...Social Sciences , who joined The Open University in 1999 and has held visiting appointments at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles and the London School of Economics. Richard works in the field of comparative politics and specialises in British politics and is presently researching the British prime minister. Anne...
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Article 5 mins
Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...interacts with matter as if it is composed of a stream of particles, now called photons. Each photon carries a specific amount of energy, which is directly related to the frequency used to characterise the propagation of light by the relation: energy of photon = Planck’s constant x frequency. [Wave-particle optical illusion] A wave and a particle! Planck’s constant...
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Article 10 mins
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...social structures? Is it primarily interpersonal (about interactions between individuals)? Is something racist only when individual perpetrators have racist hearts or racist beliefs? Can something be racist if it has harmful or discriminatory effects, regardless of anyone’s intentions? Why does providing an account of racism matter? One reason is that, in general, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs