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National Engineering Day
Science, Maths & Technology

National Engineering Day

...put together some fantastic free resources of the topic of engineering...You can read more about how The Open University is marking National Engineering Day 2024 with a striking new piece of digital artwork being virtually projected onto the OU’s Walton Hall building in Milton Keynes, UK: highlighting the contributions of four inspirational engineers. Discover more...
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Article 10 mins
Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
History & The Arts

Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell

...damnation and torture, but employed a touch of modern advertising techniques. Angeliki Lymberopoulou, a Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete. The project "Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-Dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries)" has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Transcript...
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Video 5 mins
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Project - University of Iowa Computer Science site Have a go yourself (although perhaps starting with paper in the first place is cheating...?) TranscriptInk Ink & pigment recipes - from the Travelling Scriptotium Have a go yourself: TranscriptBooks Papermaking with plants: creative recipes and projects using herbs, flowers, grasses, and leaves by Helen Hiebert, Storey...
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Video 15 mins
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...project as an interesting and participatory alternative?I was intrigued by Gil’s proposals and work, not least because colleagues and I have written about civic cultures and the modalities of place-making, and I also wrote about the ways in which symbols of Afro-Caribbean, South American and British identities can speak of notional combined experiences often as digital...
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Article 10 mins
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...project management planning and tracking tools – Trello, Monday, Todoist Project communication channels – Slack, Basecamp Online whiteboards – Miro, Mural Using social media – LinkedIn, specific subject matter sites Using comments and review functions in online documents – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs and Google Sheets Documents set up to track progress...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Creativity at Work
Money & Business

Creativity at Work

...Managing a successful business is never simple, especially when it’s necessary to navigate a company through a changing landscape. Featuring a series of interviews on topics such as flexible working, the role of leadership and creating under constraint, this collection also takes a closer look at fear, bias and intuition and the role they play on shaping creative...
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Video 1 hr 16 mins
Leadership in Health and Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leadership in Health and Social Care

...managers, from frontline roles across health and social care in the UK, are real people in real roles. By sharing their experiences through short videos, they help to bring alive the ideas studied in the course and help you to explore how they might play out in real-life situations. This material forms part of The Open University course K313 Leadership and management in...
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Audio 32 mins
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...managers and staff of older adult residential and day care facilities. It explains what relational care means and how relational care practice can be introduced or extended. Studying this course will enable you to apply a toolkit developed from research for use in your own care settings, with groups and/or individuals. You can work through the course independently or with...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs