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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...attention to growing and nurturing the relationships between collaboration partners. Collaboration by no means leads to automatic win/win outcomes. For example, some years ago, Carol, part of the Business School at The Open University, was part of an interagency team developing family support programmes and activities in a locality where the data showed that children were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...attention to the sound. You can look at the words at the same time, if that is helpful, by clicking on ‘Transcript’. 1 Salut ! 2 Bonjour ! 3 journée 4 tu 5 vous 6 tout ‘u’ and ‘ou’sounds appear very frequently in French. It is important to be able to make the distinction between them, in both listening and speaking. You have just been listening to some...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...attention. Half the picture? No. Relevance unclear? Yes, it is related to business but the data don’t apply to business situations. Yet another single study? Yes. Small? Yes. Total score: 7/12 Analysis of Johnston (2016) Just observing people? No, there was a control group. Original information unavailable? Yes, the research was presented at the American Psychological...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...attention to how we might change things, covering where to find information and scores, creating new editions, and commissioning new works by women composers, which you will go on to consider in greater detail in Weeks 3 and 4. This week is illustrated by short interview clips with Gabriella Di Laccio, founder and curator of Donne Women in Music, who discusses her work...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...attention to children’s affective or creative development as musical learners and music users. (Burnard, 2012, p. 2) She suggests that creative teaching and learning in music can be developed through teaching approaches that promote: collaboration risk-taking and the activities of: improvising composing performing listening. Activity 14 Timing: Allow about 45 minutes...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...attention to boundary conditions, loads and material models. Remember that there is an assumption behind every decision, both implicit and explicit, that is made in finite element modelling...Introduction to finite element analysis: 1.5 Basic principles - The basic principles underlying the FEM are relatively simple. Consider a body or engineering component through which...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...attention to plants, became much more interested in plants and crops and the importance of food and agriculture. And I went along that path. I And who fired your enthusiasm then in terms of the genetics and allowing you to understand it? AK I think I just had a really good lecturer. I was at London University Queen Mary College and I had a really good lecturer in genetics...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...attention to some of the lifestyle factors that are particularly pertinent to a person’s health and wellbeing, and you have been asked to consider these factors in relation to your own current lifestyle. You have also been introduced to quantitative and qualitative research as ‘ways of knowing’, and have also been asked to consider the usefulness of a quantitative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs