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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...communities of Belfast a real say in their future. What were the challenges they faced? What solutions did they evolve? In this album Healthy Cities founder member Ilona Kickbusch and Belfast health promotion professionals Joan Devlin, David Stewart and Mary Black explore the history of this important health project. They reveal the crucial role that partnerships across...
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Audio 40 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...community, many of whose members were writers. Robert Browning was Lee’s favourite nineteenth-century British poet, and she read through all of his poems immediately after his death in December 1889. Who were the other prominent members of this literary community in the nineteenth century, and did they read one another’s works? Activity 2 We can start to investigate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...community generally” (The Open University, 1969). Alongside this, OpenLearn also supports the recruitment of new students and, hence, a business interest for the OU (Perryman et al., 2013; Law and Perryman, 2015). Today, OpenLearn’s audience is global, and its video content is also shared on YouTube, collectively reaching over 14 million people a year, rising to 22...
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Article 10 mins
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...communication. When communicating with individuals that belong to a different cultural milieu, you should be aware of cultural differences, but it is also important to acknowledge the fact that there is usually a great number of overlapping similarities. It is natural to register what you find surprising, rather than what you find normal, and this creates unconscious...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...communication with the others involved. Ensure that lasting systems for oversight and scrutiny are in place. Contribute to public awareness of risk. Indeed all UK companies listed on the Stock Exchange are expected to apply effective risk management as part of their compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: 3 Risk in everyday...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Community and Government (CG) schools in the Kathmandu Valley, with a focus on children from low-income families and girls. [Map of the locations] One of the key emphases of the programme was in fact on encouraging gender equality in the STEAM sector of Nepal by allocating more than half of the available seats to female students, who still face an opportunity deficit in...
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Article 5 mins
28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...communities has been raised with us. There is a responsibility on society to ensure that there is no re-occurance of the pogroms of 1969 and the early 1970s. There is also a universal responsibility to tackle sectarianism in all its forms. The IRA is fully committed to the goals of Irish unity and independence and to building the republic outlined in the 1916...
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Article 5 mins
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...communicated with the intention of changing the other person’s behaviour or thinking to improve learning and performance. It is usually given to the person in response to behaviour, processes, or effectiveness: on the ‘how’ things have been done or ‘what’ has been done (Besieux, 2017). Shute (2008) also highlights that feedback is not only crucial to improving...
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Article 10 mins