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Mission to Titan
Science, Maths & Technology

Mission to Titan

...OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis. Titan: landing Scientists watch the probe’s historic journey to Titan with bated breath. Titan: evidence Scientists explain why Titan holds the key to life on earth. Titan: revelations Scientists explain the instruments on board the probe, including one that recorded sound on...
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Audio 22 mins
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...student, an early-career professional, or an experienced researcher, this course offers valuable tools to maintain productivity, resilience, and well-being throughout your research journey...Facing setbacks and demotivation in research? Progress is rarely linear, and challenges like failed experiments or rejected proposals are a natural part of the journey. This course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...become battlegrounds for competing interests, where even the definition of a term might be influenced by the standpoint you adopt (or are given) as a practitioner, manager or service user. Understanding the plural nature of the values that drive people can reduce the risk that you dismiss or downplay others’ agendas. As soon as issues are discussed relating to what...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding Globalisation
Money & Business

Understanding Globalisation

...become interdependent on and other. This material forms part of the Open University course B835 The dynamics of strategy... Understanding Globalisation Susan Segal Horn explains why the word ‘Globalisation’ is misused Cultural Homogenisation Susan Segal Horn explains how national cultures are becoming less different Technical developments Technological developments...
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European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?

...become increasingly focused after the November terrorist attacks in Paris. The argument against a French triumph is a potential quarter or semi-final against the Germans. Making up the final four Portugal, Italy, Belgium and England will be hoping to get into the semi-finals. Portugal have probably the best European footballer in Cristiano Ronaldo, while historically...
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Article 10 mins
SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...OU, and evidence from other published studies, indicates that the promise of a quick financial return is unlikely to achieve real, lasting transformations. However, it is possible to get these changes underway if you can make direct connections with their values. So what do we need to do next? To conclude, here are four policy priorities, based on a recent review of...
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Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Society, Politics & Law

Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?

...OU’s “Environmental Studies” courses. Airports are particularly interesting for geographers because they are an almost perfect example of how scale, distance and network are more complicated than you might initially think. And Heathrow is more complicated than most airports! Firstly, airports are about connections, and by some counts Heathrow is the second busiest...
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Article 5 mins
Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...OU series The Ascent of Woman set out to restore women missing from the official histories. In a personal view on the series, Leeds University's Jessica Meyer asks if the series left too many tales untold...In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf imagined that Shakespeare had a sister, a gifted young woman named Judith. Like her brother, she runs away to London to...
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