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Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Educational Management with the OU so she knows what it’s like to be an OU student! Mo is a long-standing Associate Lecturer at the OU and has been involved in systems thinking for many years, not just as an AL but also as a residential school tutor and Course Director and through consultancy work across a range of large and small organisations in the Public and Private...
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Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2
Education & Development

Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2

...these interviews, potentially will help BME, people that may live in Milton Keynes, desire to be a part of the OU or to apply for these jobs. Copyright Copyright OpenLearn publishes all its content using a creative commons licence which allows all our content to be re-used for educational purposes if The Open University is credited. More details are available here....
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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...technology may be a main cause instead. Richer, well-educated families tend to have smaller families, and their preference for a son exerts greater pressure on the family to have a boy (The Economist 2010: 79). Again, the case of China might be different because of coercive policies. The sex ratio imbalance has many other negative consequences for society (Attané 2010:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...technology is still in the laboratory stage, the research team is now working with an industry to demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness. Scaling up the process depends on factors such as the existence of an efficient supply chain of waste as well as viable business models “including the availability of capital, expected return and the policy environment,” says...
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Article 5 mins
Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...technology and AI sees the OU’s Digital Skills Lead, Jane Dickinson joined by OU entrepreneur in residence Julian Hall and Capgemini’s Darren Campbell. Transcript Webinar 4: Making a difference – sustainability Finally, OU Sustainability Director Victoria Hands is joined by OU entrepreneur in residence, Alex Cole and green roof specialists, Bridgman and Bridgman, to...
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Video 4 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...education and employment, and it enriches one’s personal life and growth. Learning to read is therefore a key goal of primary or elementary education, and high-quality literacy instruction is fundamental to any literacy curriculum. An effective literacy curriculum not only teaches children how to read, it also inspires them to want to read. Developing the skill to read...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?
History & The Arts

Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?

...technology affords, the more complex the patterns of music listening. As reported by the Guardian, a quarter of all songs listened to on Spotify are skipped in the first five seconds. So people clearly know what they don’t want to listen to. But does this active interest in music extend to entire albums? Tech by-product Despite the appearance that digital music...
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...technology was based on our work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of...
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