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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...Institute (a not-for-profit organisation that supports and promotes growth of medium-sized businesses) observes that leading a small business versus a medium-sized business is very different and requires quite different behaviours and attitudes. Watch this short video to hear Banerjee describe how medium-sized businesses are different to small businesses. Video 1 Jyoti...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...et al., 2010, p. 42). Alternatively, the marriage might be the result of other people’s decisions, in the same way that partnerships might be the result of decisions made outside organisations; for example, because of government edict. Partners may be obliged to participate with other partners who have very different values, priorities and ways of working. We hope that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...et al., (1999) fod Datganiad Salamanca a phroclamasiynau eraill gan y Cenhedloedd Unedig wedi cael dylanwad mawr ar safbwyntiau rhyngwladol am gynhwysiant. Ugain mlynedd yn ddiweddarach, neilltuwyd rhifyn cyfan o'r International Journal of Inclusive Education (2019, Rhifyn 23, t. 7–8) i erthyglau am Ddatganiad Salamanca 25 mlynedd ar ôl iddo gael ei lunio, a nododd...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...et al., 2019). New buildings In new construction, brick walls can be built with cavities and insulation batts built in. If the building is in an area of driving rain then an air gap may also have to be included. Insulating aerated concrete blockwork can also be used to build the inner leaf (see Figure 15). [Described image] Figure 15 Insulation inserted into the cavity of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...et al., 1997) view of mathematics, not teaching discrete chunks of mathematics but supporting students in seeing how each topic draws on and extends the ideas that they have worked with before. Being a connectionist teacher also requires you to think about how the mathematics that your students are learning is part of the real world and why learning is important to them...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...et al., 1990) which developed from the highly successful Toyota Production System. It focuses on the elimination of all forms of waste from a production system. A focus on driving inventory levels down also exposes inefficiencies, reduces costs and cuts lead times. Mass customisation (Pine et al., 1993) which seeks to combine high volume, as in mass production, with...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...et al., 2012) Fel y mae'r ddau weithiwr cymdeithasol yn y fideos yn dangos, mae llunio'r cysylltiad rhwng profiad personol a'r hyn y mae gweithwyr cymdeithasol yn ei gynnig i'w hymarfer yn gam cynnar pwysig i ddod yn ymarferydd myfyriol. Mae ymarfer gwaith cymdeithasol da yn ymwneud yn bennaf â chydberthnasau (Wilson et al., 2011) ac ymgysylltu'n effeithiol â defnyddwyr...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...et al., 2012) drawn from an OU MBA course on ‘Sustainable creative management’. DIALECTICAL APPROACHES These techniques use creative conflict within the decision-making process to help identify and challenge assumptions and create new perceptions. The devil’s advocate approach can expose underlying assumptions, but tends to emphasise the negative. Dialectical...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs