Engaging and competing in commercial markets
Practitioners Showcase: An increasing number of social entrepreneurs, in partnership with commercial players, are establishing high impact, sustainable enterprises. An increasing number of social entrepreneurs, in partnership with commercial players, are establishing high impact, sustainable enterprises by tapping into the growing global consumer interest in environmentally sound, fair trade goods and services. Three innovative social entrepreneurs will talk about how they successfully educate c
7.1 What have you learnt in this unit?
Ever wondered how a computer processes data into information? This unit will help you to understand the distinction between the two and examines how a computer-based society impacts on daily life. You will learn what computers can do with data to produce information and how computers can be used to work with data and search for it, control machines, and support commercial operations.
1.2 Aims of the unit
Ever wondered how a computer processes data into information? This unit will help you to understand the distinction between the two and examines how a computer-based society impacts on daily life. You will learn what computers can do with data to produce information and how computers can be used to work with data and search for it, control machines, and support commercial operations.
St Hilda's College: undergraduate life
Experiencing St Hilda's College: undergraduate life Helen Swift talks to Lucia Nixon, Tutor for Admissions, about undergraduate life at St Hilda's College.
St Hilda's College: postgraduate life
Experiencing St Hilda's College: postgraduate life Helen Swift talks to Lucia Nixon, Tutor for Admissions, about postgraduate life at St Hilda's College.
St Hilda's College: Medieval and Modern Languages
Experiencing St Hilda's College: Helen Swift talks to Lucia Nixon, Tutor for Admissions, about why study Medieval and Modern Languages at St Hilda's College.
Rwanda: "Justice for Whom?" and "Peddling Justice"
2 lectures. Justice for Whom? Assessing Local Responses to Transitional Justice in Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone and Peddling Influence: A Rwandan Response to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Recorded 11 May 2010.
Managing Transition: the National Peace Accord, South Africa, 1991-94
Delivered by Rev. Dr. Liz Carmichael MBE, Chaplain and Tutor in Theology, St John's College, University of Oxford; and Facilitator and Trainer under the National Peace Accord. Part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series, Trinity 2010. Recorded 15 June 2010.
Improv -- Movement Words
 Improvisation exercise. Each dancer had a different movement word that they were supposed to follow. Can you guess who had what movement word?
Word Bank:
Parting
Decay
Escape
Disappear
Delay
Repulse
Growth
Search
Discover
Linger
Threaten
Hide
Bloom
Wither
Hesitate
Underlining Titles
Titles are often underlined with large books, TV shows,
movies, games, works of art and album titles. Learn from a tutor about every instance in which titles need to be underlined in this clip.
Skills For Learning - Reflection Toolkit
Zip file contains two flash movies:- 1. Animation of a dialogue between student and tutor reflecting on interaction in a group seminar situation. 2. Animation of potential scenario's and 'what if's ...' in a similar situtation.
1.1 Note taking in this context Although the audio file included in this unit was designed to compliment the D218 Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity Open University course its contents are still relevant to anyone wishing to improve their understanding of note taking. The audio file, however, uses specific examples associated with the Social Sciences. The audio file was recorded in 1998. John Clarke discusses the value and best ways of note taking with OU colleagues Esther Saraga and Gerry Mooney.
1 The problem with crime: Glasgow Sean Damer examines the problem of crime in relation to Glasgow. The audio programme was recorded in 2001. Participants in the audio programme were: Sean Damer Staff Tutor in Politics for The Open University, Scotland and is based in the University of Glasgow; Moira Burgess a pre-eminent bibliographer of Glasgow and analyst of Glasgow in fiction; Jimmy Boyle a graduate of Barlinnie Prison's
Episode 14 – Exposure to the Elements Have you seen Wolfram|Alpha? It’s not an internet search engine, even though it seems like one, but rather a computational knowledge engine. You ask it a question, and it actually computes the answer. Seems the perfect way to double-check if the meaning of life is really 42, like Douglas Adams wrote in A Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. However, it occurred to me that the answer should actually be 94 not 42. Here i
Lecture 14 - Banking and Finance
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A Multiverse? The Search for Life
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8 Perspectives
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
6 Limitations of LETS
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
5 Comment on the audio clips
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
2 Liz Shepherd and Jan Hurst
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
