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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...manage and report on their carbon impact, which links with their broader sustainability strategy. From the employee perspective, if implemented carefully, this can come across less as invasive activity tracking and monitoring, but rather a joined-up approach to help reduce their, and their employer’s collective environmental impact. Further, some of the actions that...
What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...managed one more fight, again ending in defeat. He was 39 and had fought 61 times. In 1984, he disappointed his supporters when he nominally supported Ronald Reagan’s re-election bid. He also endorsed George Bush in 1988. The Republican Party’s policies, particularly in regard to affirmative action programs, were widely seen as detrimental to the interests of African...
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we decided it needed...
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...manage pressured resources. Widespread use of new tools such as Magic Notes are now common with the aim of reducing the time needed and improving the quality of writing. Technological support in recording can be helpful but there are some challenges. Research shows that AI is not yet reliable in predicting risk or reflecting the nuances of language and context that are...
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...manage the marketing communications process. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B328 Marketing in action...The influence and impact of marketing can be seen all around. For instance, you may find marketing communications being used to promote various brands, increase charitable donations, persuade toddlers to eat their vegetables,...
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...manage your pension income yourself. You could choose to move your pension pot into drawdown. You can then take your 25% tax free lump sum while leaving the rest of it invested where it can continue to grow, taking further money when you need to, either as a regular income or occasional lump sums. With this approach, you're responsible for managing your own pension pot,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...managing to deliver a higher-value product than the producers of product A. Product B has a higher value than Product A, but a lower price. This gives producers of Product B a competitive advantage over the manufacturers of Product A. The products have been mapped against a reference product (with reference value 100, reference price 100). To gain an advantage over...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...manager, a partner in a business or a company director) to help you understand the practical implications. The aim of this course is to help you acquire knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to both law and the practical context in which it operates. Most, if not all, of the work which you do in this course is designed to help you acquire knowledge of the law....
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs