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An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...systems. However, from an academic perspective, educational leadership and management remain as contested concepts! Activity 1: Leadership and management Timing: Allow approximately 30 minutes Consider the ‘leadership and management’ structures in an organisation that you are familiar with. Who appears to have leadership responsibility as part of their role and what...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Design for beginners
Science, Maths & Technology

Design for beginners

...thinking about design principles from how letters are shaped to creating three dimensional models. This material forms part of The Open University course U101 Design thinking... Shapes of letters Steve Garner uses a newspaper to show how you can observe shapes of letters. Tone in design Steve Garner gives examples of how to create a range of tones. The overlay technique...
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Video 15 mins
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...think about it, the system depends on outgoing and incoming blood flowing in opposite directions, which is why it is called a countercurrent heat exchanger. (If the two blood flows were in the same direction, there would cease to be any heat transfer once the blood temperatures had become identical.) The system is shown to best effect in the flippers (and tails) of diving...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...system that provides for quality of life while renewing the environment and its resources. It is important to take the long-term view of how our actions effect future generations and make sure we don’t deplete resources or cause pollution at rates faster than the earth is able to renew them. The original definition of sustainable development is usually considered to be:...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief. Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...thinking through making’ facilitate new kinds of geographical enquiry?...In July 2017, we took part in a workshop arranged by the Everyday Futures Network at the Industrial Design Department of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’...
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Article 5 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...think about the experiences of different groups of people in the past and to understand how historians use textual and visual sources to uncover diverse histories to help you think about how racist structures operated in the past, and how these structures often rested on perceptions of difference based on race, ethnicity and religious expression to help you recognise how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...think hosts are not protected if they do things like make hosted content searchable, or organize it into categories, or run ads. The theory is that this makes the platforms too “active,” and that only more passive hosts qualify for eCommerce Directive protection. The draft AVMS Directive adopts an extremely broad version of this “active hosting” analysis. It says...
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Article 10 mins