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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...adapted extract from an Open University course B629 Marketing and finance...Stakeholders in marketing and finance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and identify customers, consumers and clients and their needs and expectations apply these ideas to a work context and recognise customers, consumers and clients and their needs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...et al., 2017). In practice, although all pupils were introduced to subjects such as English, mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...adapted from The Open University’s Changemakers guide, but has been expanded to include content on the devolved nations and global change. This OpenLearn course links to the Open University course D113: Global Challenges: Social Science in Action, now open for registration...Introduction to making political and social change: Learning outcomes - After studying this...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...adapt. And if they're included in that process, they can see why things have to change and perhaps we end up in a different place from that which we'd started. INTERVIEWER: OK, thank you very much, Ben. BEN: Thank you. While this is a powerful framework for problem solving (and has been adopted by police forces across the UK) it cannot be seen in isolation from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...adapt them as much as possible. So, we would give advice on whether to build them up higher, whether to have certain adaptations within the buildings. So, for example, having your plug sockets at kind of chest height instead of floor height means that if you are flooded, say to 30, 40, 50 centimetres, your electrics don’t go. So that really helps. There are lots of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...adapted extract from the Open University course T312 Electronics: signal processing, control and communications...Electronic applications: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the mathematical representations and techniques for manipulating of signals in the time and frequency domains explain the application, benefits and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...Adapted from the Exam Stress Pack, The Open University in the South Figure 5 Positive and negative self-talk...Revision and examinations: 5.2 Technique 1: Self-talk - Activity 13 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Now try to construct an example for yourself, in relation to a past exam or test experience, in order to identify your pattern of self-talk. Discussion In...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...adapted extract from the Open University course DD126 Economics in context...Understanding economic inequality: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what economic inequality is know what determines economic inequality understand why inequality matters for society know some of the proposed solutions to inequality understand some...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs