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Crime fiction
Languages

Crime fiction

...study and available to start right away...Find out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Crime fiction is the best-selling literary genre in Great Britain and other European countries. People’s reasons for reading, watching and listening to crime stories are many and varied. Maybe you like the puzzle element, testing your wits...
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Article 5 mins
Identity In Question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identity In Question

...studies explore the value and relevance of different theoretical frameworks for understanding identity by applying the main concepts in real situations. The material is taken from The Open University course D853 Identity in question... Identity In Question A short introduction to this album. Language Approach Why this approach of Identity formation been so influential in...
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Audio 54 mins
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...skills and capabilities required to meet your objectives in the post-pandemic hybrid working world and will take a holistic approach to wellbeing and sustainability, drawing on the Well-being Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. Throughout the course there are documents, reports and articles. While you are encouraged to read these, the timings for activities will provide...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...skills yourself. You’ll also study how social marketers sell things like healthier lifestyles using the same tools as their commercial counterparts. This module is ideal if you’re working in marketing, aiming to work in marketing, wanting to gain insights for your own business, or if you simply want to understand more about your own consumer behavior. The module will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
60 second adventures in economics: The Paradox Of Thrift
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Paradox Of Thrift

...skills and techniques that let us produce more. And even if this new technology destroys jobs, wages will drop, and businesses hire more people – so unemployment falls again. Simple. At least in the long run... But then a "live-fast-die-young" kinda chap called John Maynard Keynes cheerfully pointed out that “in the long run we're all dead”. So, to avoid the misery...
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Video 5 mins
University of Westminster: Work-Based Employability
Education & Development

University of Westminster: Work-Based Employability

...we’ve picked some free courses in some key employability subjects, including some of the aforementioned badged courses. In addition our Work Skills collection has around 150 items to explore, and you’ll also find further courses and content across the site, designed to support people outside of work, covering health and wellbeing, finance and other valuable topics....
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The Italian Cantastorie
History & The Arts

The Italian Cantastorie

...skills do these artists have. The Storytellers' Performance What the performance involves. Where do cantastories perform, and why? Mediation and Detachment How the cantastorie engages with the audience, and how the lyrics relate to the images in the posters. The Cartellone, the Lyrics and their Musical Setting The importance of the cartellone (the poster) - it's function,...
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Audio 36 mins
The Acropolis and the Parthenon
History & The Arts

The Acropolis and the Parthenon

...The Parthenon -pediments and metopes Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally. The Parthenon frieze A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum. Plan drawings Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan....
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Audio 28 mins