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My career goal: Creative and design

Bring out your creative flair to its full potential. Find some practical advice for advancing your career in a creative industry, whether that's using your keen visual eye, practical ingenuity, or...

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Managing innovation

Creativity can make or break an organisation. How do companies get the creative juices flowing? What drives innovation and what factors stop it in its tracks? The OpenLearn team.First published on Tue,...

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How do adverts get made?

Getting a dog to sell insurance isn't easy. So how do adverts get made? The OpenLearn team.First published on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 as How do adverts get made?. To find out more visit The Open University's...

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The Pitch

In this article originally published as part of the Ad Factor website, we examine the process by which advertising agencies compete for clients' accounts. The OpenLearn team.First published on Fri, 07...

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Re-inventing childhood

Each generation remakes the meaning of being young. Hugh Cunningham explores some of these childhood inventions. Professor Hugh Cunningham.First published on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 as Re-inventing childhood....

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Killing creativity

How can you encourage children to be creative - without swamping them? Nick Owen.First published on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 as Killing creativity. To find out more visit The Open University's Openlearn...

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Making trouble? Craft values and the new capitalism

Could a revival of craft be the perfect antidote to an art scene which has come to a comfortable acceptance of radicalism? Dr Mark Banks.First published on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 as Making trouble? Craft...

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Creativity in management

Management consultant David Brook asks what the link is between Einstein and business? David Brook.First published on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 as Creativity in management. To find out more visit The Open...

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Evan Davis on... nothing new

After The Bottom Line looked at creativity in business, Evan Davis suggested that change is not a series of eureka moments, but a process of incremental engineering. Evan Davis.First published on Fri,...

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How can businesses use creativity to boost the bottom line?

Jane Henry takes a look at creativity in the workplace, and how it can be channelled into profitability. Dr Jane Henry.First published on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 as How can businesses use creativity to boost...

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Supporting children’s learning in the early years

How do young children learn, and how can adults help them? This album looks at how nursery teachers support children in their development. We follow a practitioner’s day, looking at how she works with...

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Facilitating creative thinking

How do you solve your problems? This album follows two facilitators as they lead a 2-day workshop in creative problem-solving, providing a chance to adopt a new approach to the difficulties we...

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Imagery and metaphor

How do you address problematic issues at work? This album reveals more creative ways to solve problems, other than relying on rational techniques such as brainstorming and lateral thinking. Employees...

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Management in Chinese cultures

What can we learn from the way business is done in Asian cultures? The dominant management philosophy in the Asia-Pacific region is a Chinese one, emphasising Confucian values, the family and respect...

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Changing the way we work

What does the future hold for our working lives? This album explores the ways in which organisations are changing; the breaking down of traditional hierarchical structures, the increasing emphasis on...

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Future Technologies: Designing with vision

Everything we wear, every product we use, every building we see is a design defined by a certain shape. The Design with Vision project illustrates how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape...

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Partnerships: working across boundaries

How much more can you achieve by working with others rather than working alone? How should you manage relationships across various physical and cultural divides? This album explores how the formation...

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Design and Creativity

We encounter designed products every day, from bus tickets to buildings. We travel on, wear and even eat products that have been designed. What it is like to be a designer? What are the design...

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A short guide to making video

Director and producer, James McDonald, shows how he created the Brixton: transitioning to a low-energy future video, and shares some tips on how to make good videos including the importance of a good...

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Thought and Experience

This album contains fascinating and engrossing interviews with several leading philosophers concerning, primarily, the exploration of four topics: emotion; thought and language; imagination and...

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Buddhist Economics

In the world of economics, does a person’s well-being really matter? What is more important, social objectives or profit maximisation – or are they even compatible? During a trip to Burma in 1955,...

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Leslie Budd on... creative superstars

In business there are victors and there are losers. Leslie Budd looks at the impact of creativity and innovation on Intellectual Property, and the rise of the business superstar Dr Leslie Budd.First...

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The Bottom Line - Celebrating design

In a special programme recorded at the Design Museum in London, Evan Davis and his panel of top business guests discuss economic recovery in Britain and design. The OpenLearn team.First published on...

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Leslie Budd on... design

From outside the Design Museum in London, Leslie Budd looks at the celebration of design in Britain, past and future. He suggests design can help economy growth in the aftermath of a global recession....

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Leslie Budd on... creatives

Leslie Budd explores the roles of creative individuals in business from outside the Design Museum, London. Dr Leslie Budd.First published on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 as Leslie Budd on... creatives. To find out...

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Evan Davis on... striking a balance

Evan Davis argues that interfering is ok as long as it doesn't get in the way of the creativity and benefit of others. Evan Davis.First published on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 as Evan Davis on... striking a...

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Alison Masters's story

Explore the personal side of climate change with Alison Masters's diary entry. Alison Masters.First published on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 as Alison Masters's story. To find out more visit The Open University's...

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OU on the BBC: Digital Planet - Openness and creativity

In a special edition from SXSW, a panel debates whether openness is killing creativity. Click on BBC World Service.First published on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 as OU on the BBC: Digital Planet - Openness and...

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The natural environment at the heart of human creativity

Tim Birkhead discusses a new collective whose creative work is influenced by the natural environment. Professor Tim Birkhead.First published on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 as The natural environment at the heart...

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Creative Futures

Is creativity a mindset or can it be developed? How much influence does organisational culture have on creativity in the workplace? And is there space for innovation within all business environments?...

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Creativity at Work

Is creativity a mind-set or can it be developed? How much influence does organisational culture have on creativity in the workplace? And is there space for innovation within all business environments?...

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Finding creativity in orbit?

Has space tourist Trevor Beattie got it wrong by suggesting that it's time to send creative people to space? The OpenLearn team.First published on Thu, 27 Feb 2014 as Finding creativity in orbit?. To...

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Introducing language and creativity

Our short video gives a brief introduction to creativity - and explores its links with language. First published on Thu, 30 Jul 2015 as Introducing language and creativity. To find out more visit The...

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Collective Creativity

Can the boundaries of the 'creative class' be broken down? Should they? How do creative people contribute to society and the economy? First published on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 as Collective Creativity. To...

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Film: Creative or Cultural?

How does the UK view the importance of the creative and cultural impact of the creative industries, and which is more important? First published on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 as Film: Creative or Cultural?. To...

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Creativity, community and ICT

What do you think being creative means? This free course, Creativity, community and ICT, engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new...

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Design thinking

Are you ever frustrated with something that you thought you could design better? This free course, Design thinking, will show you how to structure your natural creativity to come up with solutions to...

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Language and creativity

This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its...

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What's creative about creative writing?

Can creativity be taught? How far can you be creative when translating other people's work? Listen to translators, authors and creative writing teachers as they explore these and other questions of...

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Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century

This online module will change your way of seeing and solving complex problems for ever. Through a mix of academic and practical work, you'll develop an understanding of design, acquire new design...

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Sustainable creative management

This module considers how managers create innovative and sustainable ways of doing things. The approach combines conceptual models with practical examples and cross-cultural comparisons. After...

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BA (Honours) Music

On our music degree, you'll learn how music is created, study a wide range of styles, and unlock your own creativity. This degree will broaden and deepen your understanding of musical practices,...

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MBA (Master of Business Administration)

Our internationally-recognised MBA is a unique distance learning qualification that will build and develop your business skills. You'll be able to critically assess multiple perspectives and start...

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Language and creativity

This module looks at creativity in the English language around the world: from everyday contexts to 'high culture' literary language and the impact of new media. You will investigate the relationships...

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Shaping business opportunities

This module provides you with a broad grounding in business and management practice and study. You will explore how organisations work by looking at their internal functions (operations, finance and...

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Learning and teaching in the primary years

This key introductory module covers a range of themes relating to primary education including children's learning, inclusive education, play and creativity, home-school liaison, and the curriculum...

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Young children's play and creativity

This module focuses on understanding play and creativity in early childhood from different and diverse personal and professional perspectives. It considers how other children and adults impact on the...

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Making creativity and innovation happen

Creativity and innovation address ways of doing things better and differently. This free course, Making creativity and innovation happen, focuses both on individual creativity – where it comes from and...

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Team engineering

aims to develop the essential professional engineering skill of working with others. There are two weekend residential schools: you'll work as part of a small project team, formed at the first weekend...

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Constraints in creativity

There has been considerable discussion of what classes as creative. Csikszentmihalyi (1996) defined creativity as something that "happens when someone does something new that is useful, generative, or...

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