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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...Introduction - This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, explores the idea of service improvement in healthcare. You will find it useful if you work in healthcare, or if you are involved in healthcare in some other way, for example as a volunteer, campaigner, relative or service user. The concept of service improvement is important because it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...manage key aspects of their operations. Watch this introduction to KPIs and make your own notes about what steps this organisation takes to incorporate KPIs into its business. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Welcome to a typical organisation. Let's call it Furniturecorp and imagine that it's a long-established company that manufactures and market's chairs, tables, and other...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...introduction gives you a chance to start an exciting new learning experience, with a range of activities. This introduction offers the perfect opportunity to develop the skills needed to communicate effectively in Italian in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXI001...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...management and create new ways of living...A smart city uses digital data to improve the way that it's managed, and to support new opportunities or ways of life. In the following video, Professor Gillian Rose introduces research into how data and smart technologies are being combined with governance, policy and culture, and how this is producing the groundbreaking future...
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Video 10 mins
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...managers know that they can risk financial failure without risking the life of the club itself. This is a version of the ‘too big to fail’ problem that affects the banking industry. (Storm and Nielsen described this in 2012). UEFA has introduced the system of ‘Financial Fair Play’ to try to limit the spending of clubs. However, it is not clear that these...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...Introduction - ¡Bienvenido/a a semana 2! Welcome to Week 2! [Described image] You will see that this week introduces quite a bit of new vocabulary and grammar, especially the conjugation of new verbs in the present tense. It is really important that you learn these, as there is nothing more frustrating when learning a new language than starting to say a sentence and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...Introduction - [Described image] This week, you will find out about the Italian rail network and learn vocabulary for talking about different types of train. You will also learn how to ask about the availability of trains to certain destinations and to use c’è (‘there is’) and ci sono (‘there are’)...Week 2: Enquiring about train times: 1 The Italian rail...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...management and key management services...Network security: 9.1 Introduction - In this section I shall discuss two major approaches used to restrict access to networks – passwords and firewalls...Network security: 9.2 Passwords - I have introduced encryption keys in previous sections. A password can also be thought of as a type of key in as much as it enables the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs