Magnus Ramage is a senior lecturer in information systems at The Open University, where
he has worked since 2000, teaching systems thinking and sociotechnical IT systems. As well …

Purpose–Tourism has become one of the world's major industries measured in terms of
turnover, the number of employees and foreign currency earnings, having at the same time a …

Change management is a multi-and trans-disciplinary field that draws from a wide range of
disciplines, but none more important than organisational behaviour. The field of …

The Open University is a distance-based higher education institution. Most of our students
are in employment and study from home, contacting their tutor and fellow students via e-mail …

Pollinators are organisms that carry out the pollination process of plants and include
Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera. Among them, bees not only pollinate …

We know very little about what is under our feet. We are used to the sight of manhole covers
punctuating the streets around us, and we know that they provide access to the …

Abstract System modeling (SM) instructional strategy, an application of system thinking (ST),
can be used as an instructional approach to help students develop SM skills and deepen …

Purpose The aim of the study is to explore the role of confluent learning in supporting the
development of change management knowledge, skills and attitudes and to inform the …

In this work, a novel adaptive optimal iterative learning control algorithm (AOILC) is applied
to address the traffic density control via ramp metering in a macroscopic level freeway …

This is a tale of two brothers, Howard and Eugene Odum, and how they introduced ideas
from general systems theory and cybernetics into the field of ecology, in the process coming …