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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...resource to be tapped or mined. This misrepresents the nature of their involvement. The participant's engagement in an interview will be shaped by the multiple known situations it evokes, such as job recruitment, medical consultations or market surveys. Each sets up different expectations about the amount of talking involved, the obligation to provide answers, the degree...
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Article 5 mins
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...resources to invest in your best ideas, so it’s likely to be the best way to remain innovative, scale up your product or service, and disseminate the benefits more widely – yes, there are cases of corporations using their acquisitive powers to shelve, or even strangle, innovative ideas, but innovation is the more likely outcome. Large firms are often better regulated...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...resources from pursuing truly dangerous suspects, in order to watch everyone, is a really bad idea. If it takes a conservative 20 intelligence and security staff to monitor a suspect 24/7, the state would need to figure out how to muster the 1.2 billion staff and associated resources to keep tabs on the UK’s 60m-plus people. And if it can’t monitor all of us 24/7, the...
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Article 10 mins
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first...
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Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...Education...Early years team work and leadership: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the concept of leadership in the early years demonstrate an awareness of factors that influence leadership and teamwork understand how teamwork can support leadership skills reflect on personal leadership and teamwork skills...Early years...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...education seminars and excursions to archives. You should also consider joining the Society of Genealogists, where there is a wealth of resources as well as work done by others. Of course, these days you can find any number of websites that offer advice, but try to stick to official sites such as the General Register Office, whilst Cyndi's List has an amazing collection...
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History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...resource built and maintained at The Open University...How do we know what people read in the past, and how they read it? This free course, History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past, is the first in a series of tutorials designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use the resource, and explores the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs