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CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...social conditions would fundamentally affect the buildings of the future. The Declaration also asserted that as society became more industrialised, it was vital that architects and the construction industry rationalise their methods, embrace new technologies and strive for greater efficiency. (Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the...
Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...working to maintain an appropriate social distance between ourselves and the people we are interacting with. The distance at which we hold people depends on our relationship with them as well as our mood or priorities at the time. [two women on a swing, facing one another] Messaging apps challenge our need to keep people at an appropriate or comfortable distance because...
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...works in isolation from the historical context in which they were produced and the social functions that they served. More recent accounts of the Baroque, by contrast, take account of its sacral and courtly functions, applying the label especially to works that sought to make an overwhelming effect on their beholders in order to impress them with the power and glory both...
PodMag September 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag September 2016

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...This edition of the PodMag focuses on starting to study, either for the first time or beginning a new module. We hear from Georgina Blakeley about her top tips for studying, Alison Green talks about the merger between Arts and Social Sciences, and Nicky Harlow talks about how essays are marked, and what advice she...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...worked out better than others. Our last health and social care supply teacher decided that she wanted a school in what she described as a ‘nicer area’. I didn't ask too closely what she meant, but it's a comment we still get from time to time. So, I had to make another call to the supply agency. My contact there is Roger Mannering. Roger explained that they were very...
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...Social media and the immediacy of consumer-to-consumer communication in the digital era have fueled such protests. Multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been criticised by the Public Accounts Committee over tax avoidance. In order to counter the negative publicity, Starbucks plans to change its arrangements and pay UK corporation tax while Google has...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...work with them, to help them to change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I...
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...social networking can be done informally and outside of the regular work environment, its value to your professional development can be marked (Davis, 2011). By sharing with peers and experts via networks, you can advance your online teaching skillset more rapidly than you would do alone, and solve issues that you may encounter by asking for assistance from your network....
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