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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...human and other resources to achieve organisational goals efficiently and effectively. If you can relate your activities to this description then you are a manager – even if the word manager is not part of your job title. You may have only one or two people for whom you are responsible, but if you work through them to achieve organisational goals, you are managing them...
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...human impact on the atmosphere, including the impact of industrialisation, other sources of greenhouse gases that are connected to humans and the numerous and varied means of measuring climate change that are available. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Science...Climate change: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...resources you can access from home for those days when one is not out. They will not only help you engage better and learn before you go out, but they also encourage sharing of ideas/observations with other like-minded people. From live wildlife cameras available on the web to various environments (e.g. Explore live cameras), to many learning resources which are to be...
Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...resources – and so developing the ability to communicate with people who are involved in managing the natural environment is a really important thing to ensure that environmental policies are developed and supported by the general public, land managers and politicians. Studying the natural sciences in Welsh means that you have better opportunities of employment because...
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...human brain, can do it at all. Neuroscientists have explored language for decades and produced scores of studies on multilingual speakers. Yet understanding this process – simultaneous interpretation – is a much bigger scientific challenge. So much goes on in an interpreter’s brain that it’s hard even to know where to start. Recently, however, a handful of...
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...Human Nutrition Research Center, a facility run by the US Department of Agriculture. When we visit, the kitchen staff are preparing dinner for people enrolled in a study. Plastic dinner trays are laid out with meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn, brown bread, a chocolate-chip scone, vanilla yoghurt and a can of tomato juice. The staff weigh and bag each item, sometimes adding...
EPQs: help and tips
Education & Development

EPQs: help and tips

...resources created by OU colleagues including Richard Holliman, Trevor Collins, Gareth Davies, Victoria Pearson, Joe Kendall, Penny Green, David Sharp and Sarah Davies. [Astrobiology logo]This article was produced by AstrobiologyOU, a multidisciplinary group at The Open University that is working to understand how, and where, life might be found and to address the...
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Warnock about the ethics dilemmas of having children. Find out more about Mary, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Human Use of Animals Peter Singer, possibly the most famous philosopher in the world, sparked the birth of the animal rights movement. Discover his take on the human use of animals. Find out more about Peter, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites....
Audio 3 hrs 49 mins