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Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...management. Strategic human resource management rests on the belief that people are the key to achieving competitive advantage. Employees need to be seen as assets to be developed, not costs to be controlled. This free course explores three key themes: employee engagement, employee involvement and collective aspects of employee relations...Engagement is a key buzzword in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...project ] Images from game prototype. In March 2017, Nele Vos, a narrative experience designer living and working in Berlin, participated in the Who Are We? Tate Exchange project with an installation titled, Citizenshop/Citizenship. In the midst of the ‘refugee crisis’, Brexit, and the increasing salience of xenophobic and anti-immigrant sentiments in both Europe and...
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Article 10 mins
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Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...Introduction - You might be studying, or considering learning about, more than one subject as part of your studies. Combining different subjects provides an exciting opportunity to find ways in which those subjects intersect and influence each other, across different subject boundaries. ‘Multidisciplinary’ study at The Open University includes our ‘Open’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...project on ‘Conspiracy and Democracy’ in CRASSH (the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. John recalls “In 2013-2015 David Runciman and I ran a small project on Technology and Democracy which in 2020 led to the establishment of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy in CRASSH...
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Audio 15 mins
What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...project that was conducted in 2022 into Scottish educators’ experiences and perceptions of professional learning...This session was based on a research project that was conducted in 2022 into Scottish educators’ experiences and perceptions of professional learning. The final report raised 5 key questions: What is the role of online professional learning for equity of...
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Video 5 mins
Further uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Further uses of genetic testing

...Some genetic tests use this information to predict how likely a person is to have certain traits, such as red hair. However, this doesn’t always paint the full picture as our environment also plays an important role in shaping our characteristics. Visit our YouTube playlist to watch more videos from the GRACE project, or visit our website to know more about the project....
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Video 6 mins
Medical uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical uses of genetic testing

...can also be analysed simultaneously on a large scale. This allows scientists to learn more about how our genetics affects our health, and paves the way for groundbreaking discoveries in healthcare which change the way we diagnose and treat diseases. Visit our YouTube playlist to watch more videos from the GRACE project, or visit our website to know more about the project....
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Video 8 mins
Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace

...project [Unknown title] Video transcript Thirty years ago, in Northern Ireland – or in the North – it was hard to believe in peace. The horror of one week in October 1993 is implanted in our memories. A bomb on the Shankill Road in Belfast. The dead of that day, and what followed. Within weeks, a huge arms shipment destined for loyalists was intercepted. Then, news...
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Article 5 mins