This is the group for the alumni journal, OpenMinds 2012 edition. Many articles in the journal direct you to this area to discover more about the content. Below you will find all the references in the journal, in page order.
Find out what readers thought of the magazine in the forum area.
Welcome to OpenMinds!
If you haven't received a copy of OpenMinds please note it's now available online.
Further reading and links
Google goes ancient with maps
In this video, the OU’s Professor of classical studies, Helen King talks about ancient medicine and why Gladiator is one of her favourite films
Changing prospects in Ethiopia
See $1 million funding to train Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia for further information
Outside of the box
Modules: Creative writing | Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century | Sustainable creative management
Rising interest
Evan Davis lecture on the British economy | OpenLearn articles by Evan Davis
The emotional pinch
Read more about the Enduring Love? research project and take the questionnaire
New wavelength
Women in the boardroom
What are your chances of reaching the top of the career ladder? You can find out via our Boardroom Lottery game, which will be available to play from July. In the meantime, enjoy links to free learning and academic articles.
Check out the OU on the BBC: Hilary Devey's Women at the Top. Broadcasting Thursday 6 September - 9pm BBC 2 and BBC HD
Statistics versus epidemics
Help the OU track flu | Read up on the Linear statistical modelling module
The continental drifters
Find out about the latest thinking on what it means to be European and the ERC Advanced Grant Project of which Professor Isin is the Principal Investigator.
It doesn't add up
Join the mathematics and statistics group
Outside the laboratory
Join the science community group
If you haven't received a copy of OpenMinds please note it's now available online. Further reading and links Google goes ancient with maps In this video, the OU’s Professor of classical studies, Helen King talks about ancient medicine and why Gladiator is one of her favourite films Changing prospects in Ethiopia See $1 million funding to train Health Extension Workers in ...
What is creativity? roundtable discussion
A panel of Open University academics got together to give their take on creativity. Extracts are featured in OpenMinds (pages 10-13) and you can see more on the discussion below.
Discussion guide (approximate timings in minutes):
- Start: Introducing the Panel (l-r)
Dr Jane Henry (JH), Senior Lecturer in applied psychology
Chair, Writer Sophie Radice
Derek Neale (DN), Fiction writer and Lecturer in creative writing
Dr Fiona Doloughan (FD), Lecturer in English literature and creative writing
- 1.00 (JH)
What is creativity? The panel share their views
- 3.29 (ALL)
What is the process of creativity?
Is it access to material, is it about the environment? Does it come from suppression?
- 5.30 (FD & DN)
Creative response to pressure and oppression
Is it a different type of creativity? Examples of Freud’s views.
- 10.45 (JH)
In business and science a mix of personalities works best
- 11.23 (Chair & FD)
Can creativity be an obsession with a tiny detail? Views ion Picasso
- 12.30 (FD)
Is creativity innate? What influence does culture have?
- 13.11 (DN)
How a writer draws the reader in? It’s essential to make the reader a co-producer.
- 14.30 (DN)
Can you teach creativity and art?
Editing is as important as creativity in writing and let others read your work helps you learn
- 17.00 (FD)
Final thoughts: reading, writing and learning go together and are needed for creative writing
A panel of Open University academics got together to give their take on creativity. Extracts are featured in OpenMinds (pages 10-13) and you can see more on the discussion below. Discussion guide (approximate timings in minutes): Start: Introducing the Panel (l-r) Dr Jane Henry (JH), Senior Lecturer in applied psychology Chair, Writer Sophie ...
OpenMinds - did you like it and why?
Did you find OpenMinds journal interesting and thought provoking? Have you talked about any of the articles with friends or family? What did you enjoy the most? How can we make the journal even better in the future?
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The Open University Alumni Team
Did you find OpenMinds journal interesting and thought provoking? Have you talked about any of the articles with friends or family? What did you enjoy the most? How can we make the journal even better in the future? This area is a chance to share your views on the journal including the content and design, start debates with one another or simply to ask us questions. Your feedback will ...
Arthoplex (scam) insert with OpenMinds
I received my copy of OpenMinds and with it an inserted advertisement for Arthroplex. This ad makes unsubstantiated and completely outrageous claims. For example, it displays a series of five photographs purporting to show how a foot, totally crippled and distorted by arthritis, is transformed by this treatment into a finely formed, healthy and fully functioning state within 68 days. This is impossible. The leaflet makes no reference to any research or known authorities on the subject and a search on the web revealed nothing other than adverse criticism and reports that Arthroplex have been referred to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Here are a couple of examples
http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/tag/arthroplex/
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3930021
It is shocking that the OU should have accepted and distributed such an advert to its thousands of alumni. Regardless of the fact that the OU may deny any endorsement of the product, Arthroplex gain credence by association with the OU's world-wide reputation. It is no accident that Arthroplex chose to campaign through the OU alumni association; many of its members will be in the age group most afflicted with arthritis and therefore most keenly targeted by unscruplulous quacks.
I sincerely hope the OU will now email all alumni to strongly dissociate themselves from Arthroplex, emphasising that the companies claims are unsubstantiated and that the company itself has been referred to the ASA.
The OU's reputation is too precious to allow it to be sullied in such a fashion.
I received my copy of OpenMinds and with it an inserted advertisement for Arthroplex. This ad makes unsubstantiated and completely outrageous claims. For example, it displays a series of five photographs purporting to show how a foot, totally crippled and distorted by arthritis, is transformed by this treatment into a finely formed, healthy and fully functioning state within 68 days. This is ...
