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What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide

...Management degrees a The Open University [Some people doing vaguely business-related things] These are clearly stock image people. What would it take to make them an organisation? Henry Mintzberg, writing in The Structure of Organizations, came up with this diagram as a way of explaining what makes an organisation: [Mintzberg’s five components of organisation] What is...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences. The course draws on debates about screen time to critically examine and present evidence about the effects of digital technologies on children’s learning and development. It concludes with a set of evidence-based...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...introduction to the album. What is social marketing? Michaela Firth in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Critical marketing Terry O'Sullivan in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Ethics and advertising Tom Farrell in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Evaluating social marketing programmes Michaela Firth in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Ethical brands Presented by...
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Audio 1 hr 31 mins
Voice of Indian Song
History & The Arts

Voice of Indian Song

...introduction to this album Becoming a Singer Sudokshina Chatterjee explains why she started to sing, and her journey from the first singing lesson to now. The Voice Sudokshina Chatterjee discusses the voice, looking at how vocalists are trained, the different ways to use the voice, and the difference between gender. Khyal Sudokshina explains the meaning behind Khyal, the...
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Audio 19 mins
Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
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The Arts Past and Present: the Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: the Benin Bronzes

...The arts past and present: the Benin Bronzes A short introduction to this album. Exhibiting the Benin Bronzes The academic dilemmas behind curatorial decisions on ways of displaying the Benin Bronzes. Ethnographic artefacts or works of art? Open University academic Paul Wood explores some of the issues surrounding classification of objects such as the Benin Bronzes....
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Audio 22 mins
Exploring sedimentary processes
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring sedimentary processes

...brief introduction to this album. From granite to sand How sand is formed by the weathering of moorland rock. Sand under the microscope What microscopic investigations reveal about samples of sand. Grains of sand Using sieves to establish grain size profiles. Transporting sand grains Comparing the effectiveness of wind and water for moving sand grains of different sizes....
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Audio 22 mins
Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt
Science, Maths & Technology

Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt

...introduction to this album. Volcanism in the western riftzone Basalt, Icelands basic building block of the western rift zone Tectonic forces Evidence of Icelands crustal stretching. Volcanism in the eastern riftzone Examining Icelands 1480AD fissure eruption. New land on the Island of Vestmannaeyjar Why is new land being created so far away from the spreading ridge? Why...
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Audio 22 mins